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The Resource The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights, Dorothy Wickenden, (sound recording)

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

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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. Man 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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
11 audio discs (13 hr.)
Note
Compact discs
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)
Isbn
9781797101071
Instance
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
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Contributor
Author
Narrator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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. Man 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
Cataloging source
CNEDM
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Wickenden, Dorothy
Dewey number
  • 974.7/6803
  • B
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
LC call number
E445.N56
LC item number
W53 2021ab
Literary text for sound recordings
  • biography
  • history
Music parts
not applicable
PerformerNote
Read by Heather Alicia Simms, Anne Twomey, Gabra Zackman ; with a prologue read by the author
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1951-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Simms, Heather Alicia
  • Twomey, Anne
  • Zackman, Gabra
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  • Tubman, Harriet
  • Wright, Martha Coffin
  • Seward, Frances Adeline
  • Women abolitionists
  • Underground Railroad
  • Antislavery movements
  • Women's rights
  • Auburn (N.Y.)
Target audience
adult
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
Label
The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights, Dorothy Wickenden, (sound recording)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Compact discs
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Carrier category
audio disc
Carrier category code
  • sd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
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
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
11 audio discs (13 hr.)
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781797101071
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
mass produced
Kind of material
plastic with metal
Media category
audio
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
Other control number
9781797101064
Other physical details
CD audio, digital
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
sound disc
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
Stock number
  • 30dzot
  • 10dzot
System control number
  • on1231933600
  • (OCoLC)1231933600
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable
Label
The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights, Dorothy Wickenden, (sound recording)
Publication
Note
Compact discs
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Carrier category
audio disc
Carrier category code
  • sd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
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
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
11 audio discs (13 hr.)
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781797101071
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
mass produced
Kind of material
plastic with metal
Media category
audio
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
Other control number
9781797101064
Other physical details
CD audio, digital
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
sound disc
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
Stock number
  • 30dzot
  • 10dzot
System control number
  • on1231933600
  • (OCoLC)1231933600
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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