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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Worked Together on the Underground Railroad, Fought for Women's Rights, and Helped Change the Course of the Civil War (2021)
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.
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"God's ahead of master Lincoln. God won't let master Lincoln beat the South 'til he does the right thing. Master Lincoln, he's a great man, and I'm a poor Negro, but this Negro can tell master Lincoln how to save the money and the young men. He can do it by setting the Negroes free." - Harriet Tubman, January 1862
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(Prologue) Fort Hill Cemetery, high above the city of Auburn in Central New York State, is not one of those cramped, fenced-in graveyards often found behind old churches, with weather-scoured slabs tipping into the earth.
Martha Coffin Wright's mutinous mind had its origins in a place she never lived: a jagged fourteen-mile-long fishhook of an island thirty miles off the coast of Massachusetts.
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She would just as soon go in the dark as in the light.
(Epilogue) On the windy early-summer day I was there, visitors had left offerings along the top of the curve stone: tiny pinecones, a handful of smooth stones, two bunches of wild daisies, and three pennies showing the gaunt profile of Abraham Lincoln.
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.
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