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Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

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Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America

Sisters and Rebels won the 2020 PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the 2020 Summersell Prize, and a 2020 PROSE Award, and was a Plutarch Award finalist. Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin were raised in a culture of white supremacy. While Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters sought their fortunes in the North, reinventing themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation's attention to issues of region, race, and labor. National Humanities Award–winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall follows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters, tracing the wounds and unsung victories of the past. 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 family's private papers, and interviews with Katharine and Grace, Sisters and Rebels unfolds an epic narrative of American history through the lives of three Southern women.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2019
ISBN-13
9780393355734
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Southern history and race relationsWomen's activism and labor movementsFamily and sisterhood

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