The Agitators Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Doroth...
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The Agitators Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden
epub | 17.87 MB | English | Isbn:147676073X | Author: Dorothy Wickenden | PAge: 392 | Year: 2021
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From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York-the "agitators" of the title-acclaimed author Dorothy Wickenden tells the fascinating and crucially American stories of abolition, the underground railroad, the early women's rights movement, and the Civil War.
Harriet Tubman-no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient, and strategically brilliant-was one of the most important conductors on the underground railroad and hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basement kitchens of Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances Seward, wife of Governor, then Senator, then Secretary of State William H. Seward.
Harriet worked for the Union Army in South Carolina as a nurse and spy, and took part in a river raid in which 750 enslaved people were freed from rice plantations. Martha, a "dangerous woman" in the eyes of her neighbors and a harsh critic of Lincoln's policy on...
Category:History of Women in the American Civil War, Abolition History of the U.S., U.S. Abolition of Slavery History
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