The Agitators

The Agitators

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Searching for Health, Kelp vs. Urchins, The Agitators

Episode: Searching for Health, Kelp vs. Urchins, The Agitators

  • Apr 22, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 38:47 mins

Soon after Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and joined the Underground Railroad, she met two wealthy white women who became her lifelong friends and allies in the fight for abolition. Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker, explores the unlikely group and their revolutionary achievements in her new book, “The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights.”