A key literary mentor of Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, was the most ferocious white abolitionist in Massachusetts. Unitarian minister (!!) ... Stormed Boston's courthouse to free Anthony Burns ... Among the Secret Six who funded John Brown, and the only one who never fled after Harpers Ferry ... hard-fighting colonel of a …
A key literary mentor of Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, was the most ferocious white abolitionist in Massachusetts. Unitarian minister (!!) ... Stormed Boston's courthouse to free Anthony Burns ... Among the Secret Six who funded John Brown, and the only one who never fled after Harpers Ferry ... hard-fighting colonel of a pioneer Black regiment in the CW ... And after a life of turmoil and consequence, still titled his memoir "Cheerful Yesterdays!" You can't make up stuff like this.
A key literary mentor of Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, was the most ferocious white abolitionist in Massachusetts. Unitarian minister (!!) ... Stormed Boston's courthouse to free Anthony Burns ... Among the Secret Six who funded John Brown, and the only one who never fled after Harpers Ferry ... hard-fighting colonel of a pioneer Black regiment in the CW ... And after a life of turmoil and consequence, still titled his memoir "Cheerful Yesterdays!" You can't make up stuff like this.
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