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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Army Life in a Black Regiment is a riveting and empathetic account of the lessons learned from an encounter between a New England intellectual and nearly a thousand newly freed slaves. In the fall of 1862, Thomas Wentworth Higginson was asked to take command of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers, and he immediately understood the significance of the experiment...
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1911.
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From the distinguished "English Men of Letters" series comes this biography of Quaker author and activist John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). A member of nineteenth century New England's family-friendly Fireside Poets School, Whittier was frequently mobbed for his outspoken antislavery beliefs. Written by a fellow abolitionist, this 1902 life story is a wealth of anecdote and reminiscence from Whittier's boyhood to his death.
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1963.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a military commander during the America Civil War, an Abolitionist, a Unitarian minister, a writer and editor and the man who brought the poetry of Emily Dickinson before the American public. During his long life he knew many of the great people of his day including Emerson, Thoreau, Julia Ward Howe, and Wendell Phillips.
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