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

Label
The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights
Title
The agitators
Title remainder
three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights
Statement of responsibility
Dorothy Wickenden
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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
Biography type
collective biography
Cataloging source
DZM
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Wickenden, Dorothy
Dewey number
  • 974.7/6803
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E445.N56
LC item number
W53 2021
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Tubman, Harriet
  • Wright, Martha Coffin
  • Seward, Frances Adeline
  • Women abolitionists
  • Underground Railroad
  • Antislavery movements
  • Women's rights
  • HISTORY / Women
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
  • HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
  • Black interest
  • Auburn (N.Y.)
Target audience
adult
Label
The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights, Dorothy Wickenden
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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)
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition
Extent
xiv, 384 pages
Isbn
9781476760735
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)on1234441272
  • (OCoLC)1234441272
  • 2085277
  • 2085277
Label
The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights, Dorothy Wickenden
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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)
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition
Extent
xiv, 384 pages
Isbn
9781476760735
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)on1234441272
  • (OCoLC)1234441272
  • 2085277
  • 2085277

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