HIGGINSON (Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, American Writer and Soldier)

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent, telling him that he understands "the ?Brete meeting is to be called as you indicate ... I hope to arrive by 'Saratoga train' leaving Boston viâ Fitchbury at 9 a.m.", 1 side small 8vo. and conjugate blank, Dublin, New Hampshire, 29th August

Higginson was active in the anti-slavery agitation. In the Civil War he commanded the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and then from November 1862 to October 1864, the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment raised among former slaves (see his 'Army Life in a Black Regiment' 1870). In his 'Common Sense About Women' (1881) and his 'Women and Men' (1888) he advocated equality of opportunity and rights for men and women.

Item Date:  1895

Stock No:  12650      £125

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