Dorothy Wickenden on The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

(3/29/21) Harriet Tubman—no-nonsense, funny, prescient and strategically brilliant—was one of the most important conductors on the Underground Railroad. She hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basements of Martha Wright, a Quaker mother of seven and Frances Seward, wife of the man who would eventually become Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Executive editor of The New Yorker Dorothy Wickenden’s new book The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights brings the extraordinary friendship between these women to life. Join us for a look at women’s rights during the abolition crusade in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.