James D. Livingston is a senior lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(137)

1 ORIGINS AND INFLUENCES

7

(10)

Out of Nantucket

7

(5)

Quaker Schools and the Spirit of Mischief

12

(5)

2 FIRST LOVE

17

(11)

The War Veteran and the Fair Quakeress

17

(6)

Shipwreck of Hope

23

(5)

3 DAWN IN AURORA

28

(11)

New New Yorker

28

(2)

111-Fated Artist

30

(3)

Mr. Wright

33

(6)

4 PHILADELPHIA STORY

39

(11)

The Lion and the Jackals

39

(3)

Extended Family

42

(3)

Marianna Pelham

45

(5)

5 AUBURN

50

(17)

192 Genesee Street

50

(6)

Underground Railroad

56

(2)

Murder and Madness

58

(3)

Infidelity and the Trammels of Sect

61

(6)

6 SENECA FALLS

67

(14)

Abolition to Woman's Rights

67

(4)

The (Second) Tea Party That Shook the World

71

(3)

Self Evident Truths

74

(4)

Hints for Wives and Husbands

78

(3)

7 ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES

81

(17)

Nursing Grandmother

81

(5)

Visiting Lecturers

86

(6)

Natural Laws

92

(6)

8 THE CONVENTION CIRCUIT

98

(19)

Following Seneca Falls

98

(5)

Old Kentucky Home

103

(6)

Madame President

109

(8)

9 TOWARD DISUNION

117

(21)

Boys and Girls

117

(5)

"No Union with Slaveholders"

122

(4)

Freedom of the Platform

126

(5)

Fugitives, Mobs, and War

131

(7)

10 THE REBEL PELHAMS

138

(7)

The Slaveholding Pelhams

138

(2)

Governor Pelham

140

(4)

Gallant Pelham

144

(4)

Reconstructed Reb

148

11 THE LOYAL WRIGHTS

145

(26)

Willy Goes to War

155

(6)

Stopping Pickett's Charge

161

(3)

A Farmhouse at Gettysburg

164

(2)

Abolitionist Wedding

166

(5)

12 AFTERMATH

171

(15)

The Home Front

171

(3)

Harriet Tubman

174

(2)

"The Negro's Hour"

176

(4)

The Split

180

(6)

13 FREE PLATFORM, FREE LOVE, FREE LUST

186

(14)

Informing the Nation

186

(5)

Victoria Woodhull

191

(5)

Place of Refuge

196

(4)

14 FINAL YEARS

200

(20)

Prepared for Death

200

(3)

Postwar Politics

203

(6)

Boston and Florida

209

(4)

New York and Auburn

213

(2)

Christmas with the Garrisons

215

(5)

15 MARTHA COFFIN PELHAM WRIGHT

220

(13)

After Martha

220

(5)

"Dangerous" Martha

225

(8)

Appendix: Family of Martha Coffin Wright, 1806-1875

233

(4)

Notes

237

(54)

Bibliography

291

(14)

Index

305

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