The Invention of Wings

The Invention of Wings
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In the early 1830s, Sarah GrimkÂ© and her younger sister, Angelina, were the most infamous women in America. They had rebelled so vocally against their family, society, and their religion that they were reviled, pursued, and exiled from their home city of Charleston, South Carolina, under threat of death. Their crime was speaking out in favor of liberty and equality and for African American slaves and women, arguments too radically humanist even for the abolitionists of their time. Their lectures drew crowds of thousands, even (shockingly, then) men, and their most popular pamphlet directly inspired Harriet Beecher Stoweâ‚¬s Uncle Tom's Cabin--published 15 years later. These women took many of the first brutal backlashes against feminists and abolitionists, but even their names are barely known now. Sue Monk Kidd became fascinated by these sisters, and the question of what compelled them to risk certain fury and say with the full force of their convictions what others had not (or could not). She discovered that in 1803, when Sarah turned 11, her parents gave her the â‚¬Å“human presentâ‚¬Â of 10-year-old Hetty to be her handmaid, and Sarah taught Hetty to read, an act of rebellion met with punishment so severe that the slave girl died of "an unspecified disease" shortly after her beating. Kidd knew then that she had to try to bring Hetty back to life (â‚¬Å“I would imagine what might have been," she tells us), and she starts these girls' stories here, both cast in roles they despise. She trades chapters between their voices across decades, imagining the GrimkÂ© sistersâ‚¬ courageous metamorphosis and, perhaps more vitally, she gives Hetty her own life of struggle and transformation. Few characters have ever been so alive to me as Hetty and Sarah. Long after you finish this book, you'll feel its courageous heart beating inside your own. -- Mari Malcolm
Country USA
Brand Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer Viking
Binding Hardcover
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-01-07
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780670024780

Country	USA
Brand	Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer	Viking
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2014-01-07
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780670024780

The Invention of Wings

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