[미국 소설 "날개의 발명"의 실제 주인공]Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Grimké

Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Grimké

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Sarah Moore Grimké

Angelina Emily Grimké

 

Moore Grimké (1792–1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké[1] (1805–1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were the first nationally-known white American female advocates of abolition of slavery and women's rights.[2][page needed] They were speakers, writers, and educators. They grew up in a slave-owning family in South Carolina, and in their twenties, became part of Philadelphia’s substantial Quaker society. They became deeply involved with the abolitionist movement, traveling on its lecture circuit and recounting their firsthand experiences with slavery on their family's plantation. Among the first American women to act publicly in social reform movements, they were ridiculed for their abolitionist activity. They became early activists in the women's rights movement. They eventually founded a private school. After discovering that their late brother had had three mixed-race sons, whose mother was one of his slaves, they helped the boys get educations in the North. Archibald and Francis J. Grimké stayed in the North, Francis becoming a Presbyterian minister, but their younger brother John returned to the South.

 

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날개의 발명:저자 수 몽크 키드 | 역자 송은주 | 아케이드 | 2019.9.27.

“미국에서 가장 악명 높은 여성”이라는 평가를 받은 19세기 노예폐지운동가이자 여성 권익 선구자였던 실존 인물 사라 그림케의 삶을 바탕으로 한 《날개의 발명》은 미국 역사상 가장 파괴적인 시대, 세상을 거슬러 자신의 목소리를 내려던 사라 그림케와 그녀의 집안 노예였던 헤티 핸드풀 두 여성의 놀라운 삶의 여정을 그린 작품이다.