(Scribner Book Company) Subtitled “Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights,” and written by author, journalist and current executive editor of the New Yorker, Dorothy Wickenden’s, “The Agitators” recounts the individual and shared life stories of three allies, abolitionists and suffragists, united in their condemnation of slavery and in their fierce determination to secure liberation for enslaved people and women: Harriet Tubman, abolitionist and political activist, who rescued approximate … (read more)