The Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America

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The Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 277 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781640125469
  • DDC分類 973.7082

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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 War. Their actions became strands in a tapestry of courage, truth, and patriotism that influenced the lives of millions-and illuminated a new way forward for the nation.

In this collective biography, The Better Angels, Robert C. Plumb traces these five remarkable women's awakenings to analyze how their experiences shaped their responses to the challenges, disappointments, and joys they encountered on their missions. Here is Tubman, fearless conductor on the Underground Railroad, alongside Stowe, the author who awakened the nation to the evils of slavery. Barton led an effort to provide medical supplies for field hospitals, and Union soldiers sang Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" on the march. And, amid national catastrophe, Hale's campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday moved North and South toward reconciliation.
 

Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Elisabeth Griffith
Acknowledgments
1. The Better Angels of Our Nature
2. Women in Antebellum America
3. The Underground Railroad
4. Abolitionism in America
5. The "Seething Hell of War"
6. Noble Watchwords and Inspiring Ideas
7. Tending to the Wounded and Missing
8. The Prolonged War
9. "With Malice toward None, with Charity for All"
10. "Joy My Freedom!"
11. Women in Post-Civil War America 
12. Concluding Remarkable Lives
13. The Angels among Us Still
14. "Contemplating Their Example"
15. Voce Angeli, or "Voices of the Angels"
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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