Displaying 1 of 1 2021 Format: Book Author: Wickenden, Dorothy, author. Title: The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights / Dorothy Wickenden. Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021. ©2021 Description: xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm 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. Subjects: Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913. Wright, Martha Coffin, 1806-1875. Seward, Frances Adeline, 1844-1866. 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. Genre: Biographies. Other Title: Three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights 3 friends who fought for abolition and women's rights Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-358) 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 Sumner (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). LCCN: 2020951905 ISBN: 9781476760735 147676073X Other Number: 1234441272 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 912680 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 326.809 Wickende Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
