UPSIDE DOWN

Written by Williman and Patricia Willimon

Illustrated by Hoyt Simmons

Growing up in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, Sarah and Angelina Grimke had everything proper southern girls could want: a life of luxury amidst the cream of Carolina society, servants at their beck and call, a loving family of intelligent, well educated individuals.  Yet, there was one flaw in the pretty world, and the reality of that flaw was to shape their actions for as long as they lived.

The hands that held the sisters' world together were black hands__slave hands.  Sarah and Angelina could not accept a society built on bonds and chains.  They fled to the quiet, orderly world of the Philadelphia Quakers, and then to Boston, joining the abolitionists. 

Timeless crusaders, the Grimkes' faced injustice wherever they found it and spoke out where others remained silent. Branded as unfeminine radicals, exiled from home, they fought to turn the world right-side up. Their story is an unforgettable portrait of courage in a troubled age

Softcover $12.95

ISBN 0-87844-191-3

William Willimon is a bishop of the United Methodist Church.  He holds a masters from Yale Divinity School and a doctorate from Emory University, as well as several honorary doctorates.  He is the author of more than fifty books.  Patricia Willimon is  a former elementary school teacher with a masters in early education from Southern Connecticut State College.  The couple have two children and currently live in Alabama.