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Title The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights / Dorothy Wickenden.
Author Wickenden, Dorothy, author.
Publisher New York : Scribner, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Description xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, facsimilies, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
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LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 EI-Adult Collection  974.7 WIC Nearby on shelf  30626003663461 11-08-21  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part one. Provocations (1821-1852). A Nantucket inheritance (1833-1843) -- A young lady of means (1824-1837) --Escape from Maryland (1822-1849) -- The Freeman trial (1846) -- Dangerous women (1848-1849) -- Frances goes to Washington (1848-1850) -- Martha speaks (1850-1852) -- Part two. Uprisings (1851-1860). Frances joins the railroad (1851-1852) -- Reading Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852-1853) -- Harriet Tubman's Maryland crusade (1851-1857) -- The race to the territory (1854) -- Bleeding Kansas, bleeding summer (1854-1856) -- Frances sells Harriet a house (1857-1859) -- Martha leads (1854-1860) -- General Tubman goes to Boston (1858-1860) -- The agitators (1860) -- Part three. War. "No compromise" (1861) -- A nation on fire (1861-1862) -- "God's ahead of Master Lincoln" (1862) -- Battle hymns (1862) -- Harriet's war (1863) --Willy Wright at Gettysburg (March-July 1863) -- A mighty army of women (1863-1864) -- Daughters and sons (1864) -- Part four. Rights (1864-1875). E pluribus unum (1864-1865) -- Retribution (1865) -- Civil disobedience (1865) -- Wrongs and rights (1865-1875).
Summary "Chronicles the revolutionary activities of Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright--friends and neighbors in Auburn, New York--discussing their vital roles in the Underground Railroad, abolition, and the early women's rights movement." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.
Wright, Martha Coffin, 1806-1875.
Seward, Frances Adeline, 1805-1865.
Women abolitionists -- New York (State) -- Auburn -- Biography.
Underground Railroad -- New York (State) -- Auburn.
Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- Auburn.
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Auburn (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genre Biographies.
Other title Three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights
3 friends who fought for abolition and women's rights
ISBN 9781476760735
147676073X
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