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Now to Ashes
Renae Erichsen and Sarah Pultz

Now to Ashes is a play focusing on four exceptional abolitionist women: Sarah Grimke, her sister Angelina Grimke, Sarah Douglass, and the Grimkes’ niece, Angelina Weld Grimke. It reflects on a divided and fraught time in American history and pulls parallels from the past to the present in order to provide guidance for confronting our current conflicted times. Each woman’s story gives the audience a varying perspective on how to respond to injustice, while introducing the audience to a time period in history - the 1830s - that is not often talked about from a woman’s perspective. We examine what each woman had to risk, sacrifice, and hide in their pursuit of justice, and how they fell short of their ultimate goal: uniting the public behind abolition and achieving the civil rights of black Americans alongside the rights of women.