Movie Review

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Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Rebel Hearts: Sarah & Angelina Grimké and the Anti-Slavery Movement. Prod. by Betsy Newman. South Carolina ETV, 1995. 58 mins. (Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 501, New York, NY 10013)

This film explores the antislavery and feminist contributions of the extraordinary Grimké sisters of South Carolina. Producer Betsy Newman focuses on the ways in which the Grimké sisters established precedents: as the first women from a prominent slave-owning family to denounce slavery, as the first women agents of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and as the first female abolitionists to advocate woman's rights publicly. Although the film offers little that is new on the Grimkés, Newman does an excellent job of placing their activities within the larger context of the abolition movement and the pivotal events in the nation's tortuous path toward disunion and war. For this reason, the film will be a useful teaching tool in high school and college courses focusing on the nineteenth century, race relations, and women's history. . . .

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