Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThomas 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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... had been so painfully lacking in the vigilance committees to free Sims and Burns . With a little money and equipment and a few men to follow him , John Brown might actually accomplish something toward freeing the slaves of America .
... had been so painfully lacking in the vigilance committees to free Sims and Burns . With a little money and equipment and a few men to follow him , John Brown might actually accomplish something toward freeing the slaves of America .
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Abandoned and fugitive slaves from all parts of Georgia , Florida , and the Carolinas joined them there . They were a good deal more ignorant and unsophisticated even than the average of the slave population .
Abandoned and fugitive slaves from all parts of Georgia , Florida , and the Carolinas joined them there . They were a good deal more ignorant and unsophisticated even than the average of the slave population .
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The value of slave labor to the Confederate Army became clear fairly soon , and on purely practical grounds Northern sentiment swung around in favor of using captive or fugitive slaves in the same way the South was using loyal ones .
The value of slave labor to the Confederate Army became clear fairly soon , and on purely practical grounds Northern sentiment swung around in favor of using captive or fugitive slaves in the same way the South was using loyal ones .
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| Cím | Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Szerző | Anna Mary Wells |
| Kiadó | Houghton Mifflin, 1963 |
| Eredeti forrása | a Kaliforniai Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2008. ápr. 29. |
| Terjedelem | 363 oldal |
| Idézet exportálása | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |