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The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson is little known these days, but All the way through his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him on the very heart of the pivotal social movements reshaping The usa for the nineteenth century and beyond. Born in Cambridge, he was once a fervent abolitionist, running guns to anti-slavery settlers and financing John Brown’s raid. All the way through the Civil War, he commanded the first black unit to fight for the Union, and their achievements (publicized in his classic Army Life in a Black Regiment) opened the way in which for further black enlistment. He also championed women’s rights for sixty years, lecturing and agitating for suffrage. His lifelong correspondence with Emily Dickinson led to his editing her verse for publication, which some have known as his greatest literary legacy. But if truth be told that legacy is here, within the essays he wrote about the many causes to which he dedicated his life. With this volume Meyer has guaranteed the rediscovery of an enormous American figure whose ideas made him a radical in his society but a visionary in ours.
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