The Agitators

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.' Smithsonian From 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 womenHarriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wrightin the years before, during and after the Civil War.