Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nationâ€™s attention to issues of region, race, and labor.,In ,Sisters and Rebels,, National Humanities Awardâ€“winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall follows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters, who were â€œestranged and yet forever entangledâ€ by their mutual obsession with the South. Tracing the wounds and unsung victories of the past through to the contemporary moment, Hall revives a buried tradition of Southern expatriation and progressivism; explores the lost, revolutionary zeal of the early twentieth century; and muses on the fraught ties of sisterhood.,Grounded in decades of research, the familyâ€™s private papers, and interviews with Katharine and Grace, ,Sisters and Rebels, unfolds an epic narrative of American history through the lives and works of three Southern women.
History,Nonfiction,Biography,Feminism,Race,North American Hi...,American History,Womens,Politics
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America