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1. The Magnificent Activist: The
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2. Army Life in a Black Regiment
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3. Biography - Higginson, Thomas
 
4. Part of a man’s life, by Thomas
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5. Women and the AlphabetA Series
 
6. Contemporaries
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7. Black RebellionFive Slave Revolts
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8. Tales of the Enchanted Islands
 
9. The Magnificent Activist: The
 
10. SUCH AS THEY ARE.Poems.
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11. The Complete Civil War Journal
 
12. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Kennikat
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13. Army Life in a Black Regiment:
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14. Letters and Journals of Thomas

1. The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
Paperback: 600 Pages (2000-06)
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Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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A Da Capo original: The extraordinary writings of one of the most vigorous, effective-and overlooked-shapers of American history, and the rediscovery of an American visionary

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. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Not a review; merely a comment on the subject
Howard Meyer is to be commended for his efforts at rescuing T. W. Higginson from the dustbin of history.All Americans, and especially African Americans, should know something of him.Clergyman, historian, author, early women's rights supporter, abolitionist, Colonel in the Union Army, T.W.H is a man worth knowing about - a true intellectual man of action.I have read Meyer's earlier works on T.W.H and benefited from them.

While browsing at a brick & mortar bookstore yesterday evening I came across Mr. Meyer's new book and casually fanned through it. I was horrified to see that the only (I think) photograph published within the book is that of a young college-age Wentworth, with unattractively long hair, and the look of an idle popinjay: imagine, if you will, a combination of Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf (and actually more of the latter). Howard, what in God's name were you thinking of?

To potential readers:purchase the book and learn about a man of high caliber who not only talked the talk but walked the walk.If you agree with me about the photograph, excise it and mail it back to the publisher.Mr. Meyer's editor may thereby profit from the experience. ... Read more


2. Army Life in a Black Regiment
by Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Higginson
Kindle Edition: Pages (2004-10-01)
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These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered, except a portion of the troops raised by Major-General Butler at New Orleans. These scarcely belonged to the same class, however, being recruited from the free colored population of that city, a comparatively self-reliant and educated race. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars GLORY II
Those familiar with the critical role that the recruitment of black troops into the Union Armies in the American Civil War usually think about the famous Massachusetts 54th Regiment under Robert Gould Shaw which has received wide attention in book, film and sculpture. And those heroic fighters deserve those honors. Glory, indeed. However, other units were formed from other regions that are also noteworthy. And none more so than the 1st South Carolina Volunteers commanded by the arch-abolitionist Theodore Higginson one of John Brown's most fervent supporters and an early advocate of arming the slaves during the Civil War. He desperately wanted to lead armed blacks in battle and got his wish.

I have remarked elsewhere (in a review of William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner)that while the slaves in the South, for a host of reasons, did not insurrect with the intensity or frequency of say Haiti, the other West Indian islands or Brazil that when the time came to show discipline, courage and honor under arms that blacks would prove not inferior to whites. And Higginson's book is prima facie evidence for that position.

One should note that, unlike the Massachusetts 54th which was made up primarily of freedman the 1st South Carolina was made up of units of fugitive and abandoned slaves. Thus, one should have assumed that it would have been harder to train and discipline uneducated and much-abused slaves. Not so. After reading a number of books on the trials and tribulations of various Union regiments, including the famous Irish Brigade, the story Higginson tells compares very favorably with those units. While Higginson's use of `negro' dialect in the telling of his story which may not be to the liking of some of today's `politically correct' readers of this book it is nevertheless a story worth reading told by a `high' abolitionist and Civil War hero.
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3. Biography - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911): An article from: Contemporary Authors
by Gale Reference Team
Digital: 11 Pages (2003-01-01)
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This digital document, covering the life and work of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 3044 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

  • Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
  • Family members
  • Education
  • Professional associations and honors
  • Employment
  • Writings, including books and periodicals
  • A description of the author's work
  • References to further readings about the author
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4. Part of a man’s life, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
by Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911) Higginson
 Hardcover: Pages (1906)

Asin: B000REMUAM
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5. Women and the AlphabetA Series of Essays
by Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Higginson
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more


6. Contemporaries
by Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911) Higginson
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Asin: B000OFHYBE
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7. Black RebellionFive Slave Revolts
by Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Higginson
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more


8. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
by Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Higginson
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Hawthorne in his Wonder Book has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep. Although they are a part of the mythical period of American history, these hazy legends were altogether disdained by the earlier historians; indeed, George Bancroft made it a matter of actual pride that the beginning of the American annals was bare and literal. ... Read more


9. The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
by Thomas Wentworth; Meyer, Howard N. Higginson
 Paperback: Pages (2000)

Asin: B000OSLL7Y
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10. SUCH AS THEY ARE.Poems.
by Thomas Wentworth [1823 - 1911].Higginson, Mary Thacher.Whitman, Sarah Wyman [1842 - 1904]. Higginson
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Asin: B000SMZN8Y
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11. The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Hardcover: 412 Pages (1999-12-01)
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"I desire to record, as simply as I may, the beginnings of a momentous military experiment, whose ultimate results were the reorganization of the whole American army and the remoulding of the relations of two races on this continent. . . . I can only hope that the importance of the subject may save me from that egotism which makes great things seem little and little things seem less in the narrating."

So wrote Thomas Wentworth Higginson about his role in one of the most compelling and fascinating episodes in the history of the United States. As the colonel of the first regiment of black men in the Union army during the Civil War, Higginson was an early, articulate, and powerful crusader for civil rights, and his journal and letters, collected for the first time in this volume, present some of the most extraordinary documents of the Civil War.

Higginson was a politically engaged intellectual at the forefront of radical antislavery, labor, and feminist causes. Born in 1823 to a formerly wealthy but still prominent Brahmin family, he became one of America's leading social activists and a prominent writer, minister, and reformer. With the publication in 1869 of his classic Army Life in a Black Regiment, which drew on this journal, Higginson became one of the most important chroniclers of the Civil War. The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson is the first comprehensive edition of his journal. Sensitively and thoroughly annotated by Christopher Looby and supplemented by a large selection of Higginson's wartime letters, this volume offers the most vivid and intimate picture of the radical interracial solidarity brought about by the transformative experience of the army camp and of Civil War life.

"The immediacy of Higginson's reflections, as well as their sharp insights, make this journal both distinctive and enduringly compelling . . . . Higginson's vivid texts can once again educate, gratify and delight readers."—Publishers Weekly

"This volume will enrich our understanding of the transformations that emancipation and war wrought."—Library Journal
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5-0 out of 5 stars Fascinating journalofCivil War life.
Bravo to Christopher Looby for recognizing the importance of these diaries and bringing them to our attention.Higginson's thoughts and feelings about war and the men under his command unfold to portray a quiet hero. Against the dual backdrops of military horror and social conflict, Higginson's discussions of his men and his relationships with them are sensitive and surprising.Letters to his family offer an interesting glimpse of family roles while underscoring Higginson's essential humantity.

Looby's notes provide thoughtful comment. Stunning job. This is an excellent book. ... Read more


12. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Kennikat Press Scholarly Reprints. Series on Literary America in the Nineteenth Century)
by Mary Thacher Higginson
 Hardcover: 435 Pages (1971-06)
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Isbn: 0804613060
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13. Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Paperback: 368 Pages (1997-10-01)
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Asin: 0140436219
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars Best non-fiction work to come out of the Civil War
Several years ago I urged John Seelye to edit this work for Penguin.A couple of years after that, he asked me to do it instead, and I did.This is a remarkable book about a literate Yankee (Higginson"discovered" the poet Emily Dickinson) who "discovers"the South. It's also "about" Black soldiers in a white war, whiteofficers in a Black regiment, self-discovery, rivers, and hope.Much ofthe imagery and characterization in the movie GLORY seems to have beenlifted from this book: it is, after all, a first-hand narrative of war byan idealist sorely tested by politics and physical hardship.Higginson'swriting of the book is in part his attempt to deal with what today we wouldcall Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder, and it is no wonder that the tonesometimes reminds the reader of Hemingway's "Big Two-HeartedRiver."Because the teller of this story emerges as an interestingperson per se, this edition includes some of his other essays, ranging fromhis fascination with slave rebellion to his appreciation for poetry. ... Read more


14. Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906.
Hardcover: 358 Pages (1970-04-06)
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Asin: 0837118433
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