Thomas Wentworth Higginson is little known today, but during his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of the pivotal social movements reshaping America for the nineteenth century and beyond. Born in Cambridge, he was a fervent abolitionist, running guns to anti-slavery settlers and financing John Brown's raid. During ...
The commander of the first black regiment of the Union Army, Thomas Wentworth Higginson kept daily journals, which he used in preparing his major work, ARMY LIFE IN A BLACK REGIMENT. These diary entries include his opinions of his troops, his fellow officers, and the war.
In 1862, Thomas Wentworth Higginson was commissioned as a colonel to head the first regiment of emancipated slaves. A Civil War memoir written by an abolitionist, this text is the stirring history of the first regiment of emancipated slaves formed to fight in the Civil War.
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EMILY DICKINSON FIRST SECOND SERIES EDITED BY TWO OF HER FRIENDS Mabel Loomis Todd AND T. W. Higginson ILLUSTRATIONS BY Leon INTRODUCTION BY Carl V CWI THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK The Living Library is published by THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY 2231 West 110th Street Cleveland 2 - Ohio 3nc356 THE SPECIAL CONTENTS OF THIS ...
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) was an American minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He graduated from Harvard in 1841, and was a schoolmaster for two years. He then studied theology at the Harvard Divinity School. Higginson was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with ...
Three times, at intervals of thirty years, did a wave of unutterable terror sweep across the Old Dominion, bringing thoughts of agony to every Virginian master, and of vague hope to every Virginian slave. Each time did one man's name become a spell of dismay and a symbol of deliverance. Each time did that name eclipse its predecessor, while ...
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW - 1902 - PREFACE - A LIFE of Longfellow has been from the he ginningincluded in the plan of the American Men of Letters series, but it has been delayed through a variety of causes. Like all memoirs of this poet, it must rest partly on the material amply furnished by the Life so admirably prepared by his brother sixteen ...
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Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers
