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5 days ago · By the time the newlywed Isabella Stuart Gardner arrived in Boston in 1861, the city was already well known for its strong-minded, creative, tirelessly organizing, reforming women: Margaret Fuller, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Peabody, Annie Fields, Sarah Josepha Hale, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Hemenway, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, and ...
5 days ago · Harriet Tubman was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led dozens of enslaved people to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad. Learn more about Tubman’s life.
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- Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led hundreds of enslaved peopl...
- Harriet Tubman is credited with conducting upward of 300 enslaved people along the Underground Railroad from the American South to Canada. She show...
- In addition to leading more than 300 enslaved people to freedom, Harriet Tubman helped ensure the final defeat of slavery in the United States by a...
2 days ago · Lucy Stone, who became the AWSA's most prominent leader, supported the amendment but said she believed that suffrage for women would be more beneficial to the country than suffrage for black men. The AWSA and most AERA members also supported the amendment.
5 days ago · Sarah Pierce (born June 26, 1767, Litchfield, Connecticut [U.S.]—died January 19, 1852, Litchfield) was an American educator, noted for the school that she developed from a small group of pupils studying in her home into one of the first major U.S. institutions for women, Litchfield Female Academy. The school Pierce opened in her home in 1792 ...
1 day ago · Orlando, My Political Biography – moving and insightful commentary on Virginia Woolf novel (documentary review) by Carlin Braun 26/06/2024 This moving, insightful documentary bends time, genre and convention with its commentary on Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando, via the voices of over 20 trans and non-binary people.
5 days ago · A British teenager who is missing in Tenerife had "cut his leg on a cactus" and did not know where he was, a friend has told Sky News. Lucy Law said 19-year-old Jay Slater is "not a stupid boy ...
2 days ago · In her first post-Harry Potter film, Watson appeared in My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Lucy, a wardrobe assistant who briefly dates protagonist Colin Clark, portrayed by Eddie Redmayne. Watson attending the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
