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Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden. Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk. If you need help acquiring a book, please reach out to Jill Morino at jmorino@wauclib.org.
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Nothing Daunted, The Agitators chronicles the revolutionary activities of Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward and Martha Wright: three unlikely collaborators in the quest for abolition and women’s rights.
In Auburn, New York, in the mid-19th century, Martha Wright and Frances Seward, inspired by Harriet Tubman’s rescues in Maryland, opened their basement kitchens as stations on the Underground Railroad.
Tubman was enslaved; Wright was a middle-class Quaker mother of seven; and Seward was the aristocratic wife and moral conscience of her husband, Secretary of State William H. Seward. All three refused to abide by laws that denied them rights granted to white men, and supported each other as they worked to overturn slavery and achieve full citizenship for blacks and women.