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The Magnificent Activist (Paperback)
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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 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 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 called his greatest literary
legacy. But in fact that legacy is here, in the essays he wrote
about the many causes to which he dedicated his life. With this
volume Meyer has guaranteed the rediscovery of a major American
figure whose ideas made him a radical in his society but a
visionary in ours.
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