Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911)
Union United States Army officer
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. He was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized black regiment, from 1862–1864. See ‘Firebrand of Liberty, the Two Black Regiments that Changed the Course of the Civil War’ by Stephen Ash. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed people, women and other disfranchised peoples.
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22 December 1823 Cambridge, Massachusetts
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9 May 1911 (aged 87) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
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