This is a brief lesson designed to introduce students to the lives and contributions of Sarah and Angelina Grimke, two remarkable sisters, who played a pivotal role in the Abolitionist and Suffrage Movements in South Carolina and the United States.
Debates about families, sex, and sexuality frame the outline of this course. Each of these subjects differed greatly for individuals in all parts of the Atlantic World, and immediately became points of contention in the clash of societies during the early modern era. The course traces key themes and questions in a variety of locations, mainly focused in West Africa (Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria), Europe (England and France), and North America (the U.S. and Mexico) since 1700. In addition to learning about historical subjectivities of people in the past, the course also explores historiography (that is, the history of history) as well as tools and techniques used in researching and interpreting the past.
This resource contains five excerpts from documents about indigenous women in Latin America and critical questions about these excerpts.