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Converting the West(Updated)
A Biography of Narcissa Whitman (Volume 3) (The Oklahoma Western Biographies)
by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Jr Jeffrey
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-2623-4, ISBN: 0-8061-2623-X

"Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneer missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Narcissa grew up in western New York State, her values and attitudes carefully shaped by her mother. Very much a child of the Second Great Awakening, she eagerly embraced the burgeoning evangelical missionary movement. Following her marriage to Marcus Whitman, she spent most of 1836 traveling overland with him to Oregon. Narcis ..."

The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism(Updated)
Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement
by Julie Roy Jeffrey
Paperback, 311 Pages, Published 1998 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-4741-1, ISBN: 0-8078-4741-0

Abolitionists Remember(Updated)
Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation
by Julie Roy Jeffrey
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by The University Of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3208-0, ISBN: 0-8078-3208-1

"In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important. In the rush to mend fences after the Civil War, the memory of the past faded and turned romantic--slaves became quaint, owners kindly ..."