ISBN: 9781476760742 - the agitators: three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights (bestselling women's history) (22 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An LA Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist!?Engrossing. examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women?s rights movements.? ?SmithsonianFrom the executive editor of The New Yorker, a riveting, provocative, and revelatory history of abolition and women?s rights, told through the story of three women?Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright?in the years before, during and after the Civil War. ?The Agitators tells the story of America before the Civil War through the lives of three women who advocated for the abolition of slavery and for women?s rights as the country split apart. Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Frances A. Seward are the examples we need right now?another time of divisiveness and dissension over our nation?s purpose ?to form a more perfect union.?? ?Hillary Rodham Clinton In the 1850s, Harriet Tubman, strategically brilliant and uncannily prescient, rescued some seventy enslaved people from Maryland?s Eastern Shore and shepherded them north along the underground railroad. One of her regular stops was Auburn, New York, where she entrusted passengers to Martha Coffin Wright, a Quaker mother of seven, and Frances A. Seward, the wife of William H. Seward, who served over the years as governor, senator, and secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, Tubman worked for the Union Army in South Carolina as a nurse and spy, and took part in a spectacular river raid in which she helped to liberate 750 slaves from several rice plantations. Wright, a ?dangerous woman? in the eyes of her neighbors, worked side by side with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to organize women?s rights and anti-slavery conventions across New York State, braving hecklers and mobs when she spoke. Frances Seward, the most conventional of the three friends, hid her radicalism in public, while privately acting as a political adviser to her husband, pressing him to persuade President Lincoln to move immediately on emancipation.The Agitators opens in the 1820s, when Tubman is enslaved and Wright and Seward are young homemakers bound by law and tradition, and ends after the war. Many of the most prominent figures of the era?Lincoln, William H. Seward, Frederick Douglass, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison?are seen through the discerning eyes of the protagonists. So are the most explosive political debates: about the civil rights of African Americans and women, about the enlistment of Black troops, and about opposing interpretations of the Constitution. Through richly detailed letters from the time and exhaustive research, Wickenden traces the second American revolution these women fought to bring about, the toll it took on their families, and its lasting effects on the country. Riveting and profoundly relevant to our own time, The Agitators brings a vibrant, original voice to this transformative period in our history.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist! "Engrossing. examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women's rights movements." Smithsonian From the executive editor of The New Yorker, a riveting, provocative, and revelatory history told through the story of three womenHarriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wrightin the years before, during and after the Civil War.In the 1850s, Harriet Tubman, strategically brilliant and uncannily prescient, rescued some seventy enslaved people from Maryland's Eastern Shore and shepherded them north along the underground railroad. One of her regular stops was Auburn, New York, where she entrusted passengers to Martha Coffin Wright, a Quaker mother of seven, and Frances A. Seward, the wife of William H. Seward, who served over the years as governor, senator, and secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, Tubman worked for the Union Army in South Carolina as a nurse and spy, and took part in a spectacular river raid in which she helped to liberate 750 slaves from several rice plantations. Wright, a "dangerous woman" in the eyes of her neighbors, worked side by side with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to organize women's rights and anti-slavery conventions across New York State, braving hecklers and mobs when she spoke. Frances Seward, the most conventional of the three friends, hid her radicalism in public, while privately acting as a political adviser to her husband, pressing him to persuade President Lincoln to move immediately on emancipation. The Agitators opens in the 1820s, when Tubman is enslaved and Wright and Seward are young homemakers bound by law and tradition, and ends after the war. Many of the most prominent figures of the eraLincoln, William H. Seward, Frederick Douglass, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrisonare seen through the discerning eyes of the protagonists. So are the most explosive political debates: about the civil rights of African Americans and women, about the enlistment of Black troops, and about opposing interpretations of the Constitution. Through richly detailed letters from the time and exhaustive research, Wickenden traces the second American revolution these women fought to bring about, the toll it took on their families, and its lasting effects on the country. Riveting and profoundly relevant to our own time, The Agitators brings a vibrant, original voice to this transformative period in our history. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorDorothy 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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Agitators | Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights | Dorothy Wickenden | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2022 | Scribner Book Company | EAN 9781476760742 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…