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The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights  Cover Image Book Book

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

Wickenden, Dorothy, (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781476760735 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2021.
Subject: Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.
Wright, Martha Coffin, 1806-1875.
Seward, Frances.
Women abolitionists > New York (State) > Auburn > Biography.
Underground Railroad > New York (State) > Auburn.
Antislavery movements > New York (State) > Auburn.
Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century.
Auburn (N.Y.) > History > 19th century.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Cookstown Branch 974.76803 Wic 31681010229854 NONFIC Available -

Dorothy Wickenden is the author of Nothing Daunted and The Agitators and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast The Political Scene. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Wickenden was national affairs editor at Newsweek from 1993-1995, and before that was the longtime executive editor at The New Republic. She lives with her husband in Westchester, New York.


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