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Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a Unitarian minister and one of the “Secret Six” who funded John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. He wrote to Brown, “I am always ready to invest money in treason, but at present have none to invest.”
The Thomas Wentworth Higginson Collection at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is part of the larger Carlton and Territa Lowenberg Collection at the UNL Archives and Special Collections. The Lowenberg Collection's primary focus is Emily Dickinson, and it contains many items of interest collateral to Dickinson, including thirty letters written by Higginson between 1865–1910.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 431 Plain, near Boston, where the daily exercises began at the early hour of 6:30 in the morning and continued till "the cursed evening school." It excites no surprise that his experience in this all-day school was unsatisfactory and unhappy and that after six months* service he resigned his post to accept less strenuous
8 de jun. de 2018 · Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow (1823–1911) US social reformer. A Unitarian minister, he worked for abolition of slavery and for women's rights. He was colonel of the first black regiment during the Civil War, an experience recorded in Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870). Higginson was a close friend of many writers, notably Emily ...
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the new commanding officer of First South Carolina, was overwhelmed by the emotion of that moment. “I never saw anything so electric," he recalled. Although many of the men and women in that audience, such as Rivers, had been effectively liberated for months, Emancipation Day proved to be an unparalleled emotional peak in the long struggle for freedom.
Higginson was an American writer, Unitarian minister, and leader in the abolitionist movement. He was a colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers (the first African-American regiment in the Civil War), an advocate of women's suffrage, and a close friend of the poet Emily Dickinson. A lifelong radical, in his old age Higginson joined with ...
Marc Bauch: Extending the Canon: Thomas Wentworth Higginson and African-American Spirituals. Grin, München 2013. Brenda Wineapple: White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Knopf, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-4000-4401-6. Tilden G. Edelstein: Strange Enthusiasm: A Life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
