Biography: Charlotte Forten Grimke

Charlotte Forten Grimke

Biography: Charlotte Forten Grimke

01/17/2007

Biography

Black Past features a short biography (2007), written by Shirley Yee, on the life of Charlotte Forten Grimké- a free African American abolitionist, writer and teacher. Topics include: Grimké's Northern upbringing in a wealthy Black abolitionist family, her early years in education, her writing about teaching experiences in the South Carolina Sea Islands, and her marriage to Francis James Grimké.

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