Round 11: Tossup 9
A member of this family wrote “I will not seek any sex-related favors” in a letter responding to a group of ministers. A Mark Perry book about this family discusses three mixed-race sons of the enslaved woman Nancy Weston. A lesbian poet from this family wrote the plays Rachel and Mara to protest The Birth of a Nation. To advocate racial equality, a member of this family worked with William Monroe Trotter to found the (*) Boston Guardian newspaper. Members of this family helped Theodore Weld compile material for his book American Slavery As It Is. Those members of this family began speaking tours in 1837 after becoming Quakers, and published pamphlets like An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. For 10 points, name this family that included the Southern abolitionist sisters Sarah and Angelina. ■END■
ANSWER: Grimké [accept Angelina Emily Grimké or Sarah Moore Grimké or Archibald Grimké or Angelina Weld Grimké; prompt on Weld until read] (The first line is from Sarah Grimké’s 1838 series Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. Mark Perry’s book is Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimké Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders.)
<MS, American History> | NAFTA-Packet-11
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