The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights /
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.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of 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).