Seward, who served over the years as governor, senator, and secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln. 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. 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. 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 Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Frances A. “ 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. examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.” - Smithsonianįrom 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.
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