Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights”

(Notice: This interview first aired earlier this 12 months.) Our visitor is Dorothy Wickenden, an creator and editor at The New Yorker Journal. She tells us about her newest ebook, which explores numerous interlinked aspects of American historical past, together with abolition, the Underground Railroad, the early girls’s rights motion, and the Civil Struggle. Because the famous Yale historian David W. Blight has written of this ebook: “It is a distinctive, lyrically written, exhaustively researched triple-biography of epic proportions about three girls, moms and organizers all, woven right into a single narrative about their activist struggles earlier than and through the Civil Struggle. Their lives burst from these pages, as do the crusades that started the liberation of African People and ladies throughout the nineteenth century.”