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The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights / Dorothy Wickenden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wickenden, Dorothy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.
- Tubman, Harriet.
- Wright, Martha Coffin, 1806-1875.
- Wright, Martha Coffin.
- Seward, Frances Adeline, 1844-1866.
- Seward, Frances Adeline.
- Women abolitionists--New York (State)--Auburn--Biography.
- Women abolitionists.
- Underground Railroad--New York (State)--Auburn.
- Underground Railroad.
- Antislavery movements--New York (State)--Auburn.
- Antislavery movements.
- Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.
- Women's rights.
- United States.
- History.
- Auburn (N.Y.)--History--19th century.
- Auburn (N.Y.).
- New York (State)--Auburn.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 384 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wickenden, Dorothy. Agitators.
- ISBN:
- 9781476760766
- 1476760764
- Publisher Number:
- 40030476233
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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