Descendants of a prominent slaveholding fa mily\, Elizabeth\, Grace\, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of w hite supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer\, her you nger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in the N orth\, Grace and Katharine reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation&rsquo\;s attenti on to issues of region\, race\, and labor. In Sisters and Rebels\ , National Humanities Award&ndash\;winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall f ollows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters\, who were &ldquo\;estra nged and yet forever entangled&rdquo\; 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 expatria tion and progressivism\; explores the lost\, revolutionary zeal of the ear ly twentieth century\; and muses on the fraught ties of sisterhood. Ground ed in decades of research\, the family&rsquo\;s private papers\, and inter views with Katharine and Grace\, Sisters and Rebels unfolds an ep ic narrative of American history through the lives and works of three Sout hern women.
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