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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New York :
Scribner,
2021.
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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 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).
