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Portrait of an Abolitionist - A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867 (Hardcover, New)
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Portrait of an Abolitionist - A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867 (Hardcover, New)
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George Luther Stearns became John Brown's single most important
financial backer. He personally owned the 200 Sharps rifles Brown
brought to Harper's Ferry. Massachusetts Governor John Andrew asked
Stearns to recruit the first northern state African-American
regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, recently made famous by
the Hollywood movie Glory. Stearns was made a major and made
Assistant Adjutant General for the Recruitment of Coloured Troops.
He recruited over 13,000 African-Americans and established schools
for their children and found work for their families. After
Emancipation, he worked tirelessly for African-American civil
rights. Friends and associates included the Emersons and the
Alcotts, Thoreau, Lydia Maria Child, Charles Sumner, Andrew
Johnson, and Frederick Douglass.
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