Let My People Go Free ...(click title to download a printable PDF version)
This essay starts with a highly personal exploration of Grimke-Drayton family history, looking at the background of the first plantation owners – who they were and where they came from. Shifting to the present day we see how reconciliation must now be placed at the fore, acknowledging the ongoing effects of slavery. The essay takes a Christian perspective on reconciling the past as well as contemplating modern-day injustices happening around the world.



The Way of Love ...(click title to download a printable PDF version)
This essay deals with overcoming racial boundaries in the church.



Apology for Slavery or Not?...(click title to download a printable PDF version)
Are we responsible for what happened in the past?

Links to External Essays

Philemon Then and Now, Sermon Given at Westminster Abbey on 9 Sept 2001
Paul's letter to slave-owner Philemon about his runaway slave Onesimus.

Anti-slavery group begins long walk for freedom

After 400 years, Virginia issues official apology for slavery

Liverpool and the American Civil War

Liverpool and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Cowes Rice Trade

Buying and Selling Human Beings





The Grimke Family


A Family Divided - by Janet Stevenson (from American Heritage Magazine)..
(click title to download a printable PDF version)
The Grimke sisters forsook their heritage to fight for abolition. Then, many years later, their brother's terrible sin came back to haunt them



Narrative and Testimony of Sarah M Grimke (1830)
(click title to download a printable PDF version)
This is a record of her own observations of the cruelties of slavery in Charleston and South Carolina



An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States
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A letter to challenge them on their view of slavery, by Sarah M Grimke.


Appeal to the Christian Women of the South by Angelina E Grimke
(New York: Anti-Slavery Society, 1836)
(this is a link to an external essay)



Address at Pennsylvania Hall by Angelina Grimke (Weld) (1838)
(click title to download a printable PDF version)
Angelina quote: As a Southerner I feel it is my duty to stand up here tonight and bear testimony against slavery"



Archibald Grimke (1849-1930) ..(click title to download a printable PDF version)
Biography of Archibald Grimke from slave to civil rights leader



The Shame of America or the Negro's Case Against the Republic, 1920 ..(click title to download a printable PDF version)
Archibald's essay which issues the challenge to face the real implications of the Declaration of Independence in the light of equal rights to all citizens



The Life and Witness of Reverend Francis Grimke (Rev Mark R Bradshaw-Miller)
(this is a link to an external essay)