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A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time - Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose (Hardcover)
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A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time - Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose (Hardcover)
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In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family's farm near
Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington, DC. As an
ardent abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old Wilbur left a sad but
stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent
the next several years in Alexandria, Virginia, devising ways to
aid recently escaped slaves and hospitalized Union soldiers. A
Civil Life in an Uncivil Time shapes Wilbur's diaries and other
primary sources into a historical narrative of a woman who was
alternately brave, self-pitying, foresighted, and myopic. Paula
Tarnapol Whitacre describes Wilbur's experiences against the
backdrop of Alexandria, a southern town held by the Union from 1861
to 1865; of Washington, DC, where Wilbur became active in the
women's suffrage movement; and of Rochester, New York, where she
began a lifelong association with Frederick Douglass and Susan B.
Anthony. Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents of a Slave Girl,
became Wilbur's friend and ally. Together, the two women, black and
white, fought social convention to improve the lives of African
Americans escaping slavery by coming across Union lines. In doing
so, they faced the challenge to achieve racial and gender equality
that continues today. A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time is the
captivating story of a woman who remade herself at midlife during a
period of massive social upheaval.
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