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A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose

A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose

Whitacre, Paula Tarnapol

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresCivil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 1640123113
ISBN13: 9781640123113
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
Published: Mar 1 2020
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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.

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