The better angels : five women who changed Civil War America
by Plumb, Robert C. (Author)
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Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale came from backgrounds that ranged from abject enslavement to New York City's elite. Surmounting social and political obstacles, they emerged before and during the worst crisis in American history, the Civil... Full description
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Griffith, Elisabeth (author of foreword.)
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Tubman, Harriet, > 1820?-1913.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896.
Howe, Julia Ward, > 1819-1910.
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, > 1788-1879.
Women and war > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women > Biography.