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The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights / Dorothy Wickenden.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Wickenden, Dorothy, author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
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
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