Walking by Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimké, 1828-1835Univ of South Carolina Press, 2003 - 245 pàgines The diary that Angelina Grimke (1805-1879) kept from 1828 through 1835 offers a window into the spiritual struggles and personal evolution of a woman who would become one of the nation's most fervent abolitionists. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and an heir to a family enterprise dependent on slave labor, Grimke was an unlikely supporter of emancipation. Only after years of inner turmoil did she leave the South to join her sister Sarah in the crusade against slavery. While Grimke's public persona has been widely studied, the private spiritual and intellectual journey that preceded her public career and pushed her to the forefront of the abolitionist movement is chronicled for the first time in Walking by Faith. When Grimke began this diary in January 1828, uncertainty about her place in the world and her life's work occupied her thoughts. For the next seven years she recorded her most intimate concerns. Her diary entries follow her shift in religious affiliation from Episcopolian to Presbyterian to Quaker; her changing views on abolition; her conclusion that living as a Quaker in Charleston would be impossible; and her decision to establish an existence independent of her |
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True Believer | 21 |
Trial and Triumph | 44 |
Strengthening of Will | 66 |
Strengthening of Spirit | 90 |
Out of Charleston | 109 |
A New Life | 132 |
Discovery and Renewal | 147 |
Onto the Public Stage | 208 |
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