The complete online text of An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South by Angelina Grimké.

Sarah Moore (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily (1805-1879) Grimké were antislavery leaders and early agitators for woman's rights. Sarah Grimké was born on Nov. 29, 1792, and Angelina Grimké was born on Feb. 20, 1805; their father was a...

Angelina Weld Grimké has often been considered interesting only as a literary footnote--a transitional figure standing somewhere between the writers of the genteel tradition and those of the Harlem Renaissance. Some readers confuse her with Angeli...

A gifted and prolific poet, Angelina Weld Grimké belonged to a comparatively small but expanding circle of black American intellectuals. She was born and nurtured in an environment that differed markedly from that of most blacks in the late ninete...

Converting Women--Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India. By Eliza F. Kent. New York: Oxford University Press, 315 pp. $47.64. In an era of sharpened religious animosities between the Hindu right and Christian missionaries on lower caste conversions in India, Eliza...

Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India. By Eliza F. Kent. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 322 pp. $49.95 (cloth). At a time when Hindu nationalism has erupted into violence against Christian missionaries, converts, and others considered...