{"id":85555,"date":"2017-10-18T01:31:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T05:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85555"},"modified":"2017-10-17T19:48:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T23:48:52","slug":"angelina-grimke-to-be-honored-at-abolition-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85555","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Grimk\u00e9 to be honored at Abolition Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"2\u00a0<\/b>p.m.\u00a0Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017<\/span><\/span><\/b>
\nLouise Knight will present\u00a0The Remarkable Transformation: Angelina Grimk\u00e9’s Journey<\/p>\n

<\/i>7 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>
\nSponsors of Angelina Grimk\u00e9 Weld will unveil her banner for the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

12:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/b>
\nEight libraries will culminate a CommUNITY Read of\u00a0Invention of Wings\u00a0<\/i>by Sue Monk Kidd at a luncheon at which
\nLouise Knight will answer questions about the historical references in the Kidd’s historical novel.<\/p>\n

2 p.m.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>
\nLouise Knight will present information on her upcoming biography: Sarah and Angelina\u00a0<\/i>Grimk\u00e9 and the Fight for Human Rights<\/i><\/p>\n

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum commemoration ceremonies for the 2016\u00a0inductees to the Hall of Fame will be held Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, at NAHOF, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro. The inductees are Rev. John Gregg Fee, Beriah Green, Angelina Grimk\u00e9 and James W.C. Pennington. This is the last year of the two year induction-commemoration cycle. Beginning in 2018<\/p>\n

This is the last year of the two-year induction-commemoration cycle. Beginning in 2018, inductions and commemorations will be completed in one year.<\/p>\n

Angelina Grimk\u00e9 has ties to Madison County. She and her husband Theodore Dwight Weld visited Weld\u2019s brother Ezra Greenleaf Weld, the daguerreotypist in Cazenovia whose daughter is buried in the village cemetery. The Grimk\u00e9s were friends of Gerrit and Ann Smith of Peterboro, and the Smith\u2019s son and grandson went to the Weld school in Eaglewood, N.J.. Relatives of the Grimk\u00e9-Welds live today in Cazenovia and Oneida, where once hung a portrait of the reformer for which there is a current search.<\/p>\n

At 2 p.m., Louise W. Knight will present The Remarkable Transformation: Angelina Grimk\u00e9\u2019s Journey for the Abolition Symposia. Angelina Grimk\u00e9 was a white Southerner who became a northern advocate for the immediate end to slavery in the South and for racial equality. Born to a wealthy, slave-owning family in Charleston, S.C., she came to see the cruelties of slavery after embracing evangelical Christianity.<\/p>\n

At age 24, she moved to Philadelphia to escape the witness of slavery and to join a religious denomination that disowned slaveowners. Five years later, in 1835, she became a member of the Philadelphia Female Antislavery Society, and the next year she, and her sister Sarah, became the first female grassroots organizers for the American Anti-Slavery Society. The egalitarian case Angelina was making was radical for her times.<\/p>\n

Louise W. Knight is an author and historian. She writes about 19th- and 20th-century American reform and women\u2019s history. She first learned about Angelina Grimk\u00e9 while teaching a rhetoric course on
\nwomen\u2019s 19th-century speeches. Though she knew a lot about women\u2019s history, she had never heard of
\nGrimk\u00e9. Eventually, she read a 1967 biography about Angelina and her sister Sarah and was drawn to tell\u00a0their story for a new generation.<\/p>\n

Knight\u2019s project is a dual biography of the abolitionists-feminists, Angelina and Sarah Grimk\u00e9. The book will be published by Flatiron Books in the fall of 2018. Knight is a Visiting Scholar in the Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University. Knight\u2019s research has been funded by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and grants from the Spencer Foundation, the Lilly Endowment and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. She was a Research Fellow at the\u00a0Five College Women\u2019s Studies Research Center in 1996, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Humanities at Northwestern University in 2002-03. Knight earned her B.A. and her Master of Arts in Teaching from Wesleyan University in 1972.<\/p>\n

The other three inductees will also be presented during the afternoon Abolition Symposia: Alicestyne Turley, Ph.D., will present Rev. John Gregg Fee, founder of Berea College, Berea Ky., Milton C. Sernett,\u00a0Ph.D., will present The Odd Couple: Beriah Green and Gerrit Smith at 1 p.m., and Christopher L. Webber will present James W.C.\u00a0Pennington: Pastor and Abolitionist.<\/p>\n

During the 7 p.m. Saturday Commemoration Ceremonies Knight will briefly describe the legacy of Angelina Grimk\u00e9 as an inductee to the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum. Relatives, friends and associates who are sponsors of the Grimk\u00e9 inductee banner for the Hall will introduce themselves and their relationship to Grimk\u00e9. The sponsors will unveil the banner to be installed in the Hall. The Grimk\u00e9 banner will include Grimk\u00e9\u2019s official NAHOF portrait created by artist Melissa Moshetti, biographical information, her abolition legacy, and the name of the sponsors.<\/p>\n

There are fees for entrance to many of these events.\u00a0For registration forms or more information, visit nationalabolitionhalloffameandmuseum.org, email NAHOFM1835@gmail.com or call 315-280-8828. For lodging information, visit madisontourism.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2\u00a0p.m.\u00a0Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 Louise Knight will present\u00a0The Remarkable Transformation: Angelina Grimk\u00e9’s Journey 7 p.m.\u00a0Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sponsors of Angelina Grimk\u00e9 Weld will unveil her banner for the Hall of Fame. 12:30 p.m.\u00a0Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017\u00a0 Eight libraries will culminate a CommUNITY Read of\u00a0Invention of Wings\u00a0by Sue Monk Kidd at a luncheon at which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}