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03930aam a22005058i 4500 001 627A2EDA11FC11EC8B377C2451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210910010020 007 tb 008 210420s2021 meua db 000 0ceng 010 $a 2021018649 020 $a 1432889923 020 $a 9781432889920 035 $a (OCoLC)1248598130 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d KKC $d OCLCF $d BKL $d OCLCO $d YEP $d IHY $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 10 $a E445.N56 $b W53 2021 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Wickenden, Dorothy, $e author. 245 14 $a The agitators : $b three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights / $c by Dorothy Wickenden. 246 30 $a Three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 685 pages (large print) : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 340 $n large print. $2 rda 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print nonfiction 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "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 slavery, organized women's rights and abolitionist conventions with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Frances gave freedom seekers money and referrals and aided in their education. The most conventional of the three friends, she hid her radicalism in public; behind the scenes, she argued strenuously with her husband about the urgency of immediate abolition. Many of the most prominent figures in the history books--Lincoln, Seward, Daniel Webster, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison--are seen through the discerning eyes of the protagonists. So are the most explosive political debates: about women's roles and rights during the abolition crusade, emancipation, and the arming of Black troops; and about the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Beginning two decades before the Civil War, when Harriet Tubman was still enslaved and Martha and Frances were young women bound by law and tradition, The Agitators ends two decades after the war, in a radically changed United States. Wickenden brings this extraordinary period of our history to life through the richly detailed letters her characters wrote several times a week. Like Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals and David McCullough's John Adams, Wickenden's The Agitators is revelatory, riveting, and profoundly relevant to our own time"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women abolitionists $z Auburn $z Auburn $v Biography. 600 10 $a Tubman, Harriet, $d 1822-1913. 600 10 $a Wright, Martha Coffin, $d 1806-1875. 600 10 $a Seward, Frances Adeline, $d 1805-1865. 650 0 $a Underground Railroad $z Auburn. $z Auburn. 650 0 $a Antislavery movements $z Auburn. $z Auburn. 650 0 $a Women's rights $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Auburn (N.Y.) $x History $y 19th century. 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series. 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010024644.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210910010143.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=627A2EDA11FC11EC8B377C2451ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search