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A civil life in an uncivil time : Julia Wilbur's struggle for purpose

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Main Author: Whitacre, Paula, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Lincoln] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Subjects and Genres:
Wilbur, Julia, > 1815-1895.
Women abolitionists > Virginia > Alexandria > Biography.
Women civil rights workers > Virginia > Alexandria > Biography.
Suffragists > Virginia > Alexandria > Biography.
Quakers > Virginia > Alexandria > Biography.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Women > Suffrage > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women.
Alexandria (Va.) > Biography.
Avon (N.Y.) > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: the saddest sound I ever heard
  • Part I. Before the war
  • A peculiar period in my pilgrimage
  • Slavery is an evil that ought not to exist
  • My plans overthrown; life all changed
  • At Alexandria...the Potomac rolls its majestic stream
  • Part II. During the war
  • Civil War is upon us
  • My way seems clear to go
  • What a place I have found
  • Mrs. J and I may carry out our plans
  • An interfering and troublesome person
  • I wish to...fight it through
  • Will it pay?
  • As good a spot as could be obtained
  • Things as usual, quite unsettled
  • Flung my flag to the breeze
  • Part III. After the war
  • The paraphernalia of war is fast disappearing
  • That I might be there to see
  • Epilogue: the burial was at Avon.

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