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Rachel

a play in three acts.

by Angelina Weld Grimké

Cover of Rachel

The only completed play by Grimké, Rachel focuses on the social problem of racism, but it offers no solution. In it, a young African-American woman rejects marriage and maternity because she is unwilling to bring more children into a world that will persecute them.

African AmericansDramaAfrican American womenFamily relationshipsRacismMotherhoodAmerican drama