The Magnificent Activist

By: Howard Meyer

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Paperback | 6 July 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Anthologies (non-poetry)Miscellaneous Items Society & Culture Politics & Government Political Activism Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900

History Specific Events & Topics in History Slavery & Abolition of Slavery Regional & National History History of the Americas

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction	p. 1
Abolitionist and Champion of Civil Rights	p. 41
Not by Bread Alone	p. 47
The School of Mobs	p. 52
Obeying the Higher Law	p. 60
A Ride Through Kanzas	p. 74
Assorted Lots of Young Negroes	p. 101
The New Revolution: What Commitment Requires	p. 106
Why Back John Brown?	p. 117
Miss Forten on the Southern Question	p. 124
Letter to the Editor	p. 128
The South Carolina Blacks	p. 130
Letter to The Nation: "The Case of the Carpet-baggers"	p. 133
Southern Barbarity	p. 136
Lydia Maria Child	p. 138
William Lloyd Garrison	p. 155
Fourteen Years Later	p. 162
Colonel of the First Black Regiment	p. 175
The Black Troops: "Intensely Human"	p. 178
Negro Spirituals	p. 190
Camp Diary	p. 212
The Negro as Soldier	p. 233
Grant	p. 247
Memo from War of the Rebellion	p. 260
Crusader for Women's Rights	p. 263
Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?	p. 266
Who Was Margaret Fuller?	p. 283
The Shadow of the Harem	p. 303
The Pleasing Art of Self-Extinction	p. 306
Repression at Long Range	p. 309
The Fact of Sex	p. 312
Womanhood and Motherhood	p. 315
"Chances"	p. 318
Essayist as Activist	p. 321
The Clergy and Reform	p. 324
A New Counterblast	p. 331
Scripture Idolatry	p. 344
The Sympathy of Religions	p. 354
Public and Private Virtues	p. 375
"Tell the Truth"	p. 378
More Mingled Races	p. 381
Edward Bellamy's Nationalism	p. 384
The Complaint of the Poor	p. 396
Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country	p. 399
How Should a Colored Man Vote in 1900?	p. 402
Higginson Answers Captain Mahan	p. 404
Naturalist	p. 411
Water-Lilies	p. 414
Snow	p. 427
Oldport Wharves	p. 447
The Life of Birds	p. 457
The Procession of the Flowers	p. 471
Critic as Essayist	p. 483
Sappho	p. 489
The Word Philanthropy	p. 506
Unconscious Successes	p. 515
Longfellow as a Poet	p. 518
A Letter to a Young Contributor	p. 528
Emily Dickinson	p. 543
The Sunny Side of the Transcendental Period	p. 565
The Literary Pendulum	p. 577
Henry James, Jr.	p. 581
Bibliography	p. 587
Publishing History	p. 591
About the Author	p. 596
Index	p. 597
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