Three Outdoor Papers (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267199211
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Excerpt from Three Outdoor Papers Higginson had already made himself some thing more than an amateur naturalist; he now taught school a little, but presently found himself very easily in the Divinity School of his college, making ready to be a minister, and during the few years of his pulpit service, becoming more and more absorbed in the one commanding moral revolution which was for upheaving American society. He has himself told how he took part in the agitation for abolition, and was for ex changing his pastoral crook for a musket when it almost looked as if the first battle between the two forces was to be fought in Boston streets; he had a share also in the colonizing movement which led to the actual preliminary fight in Kansas, and when the war for the Union finally did break out, he stepped down from the pulpit, laid aside his scholar's gown, and put on the habit Of a soldier. From that day he ceased to be the Rev. Mr. Higginson, - a name well known by this time in anti slavery circles, - and shortly became Colonel Higginson, a title which he has ever since retained. He led a regiment Of blacks in South Carolina, and he has told the story Of those historic days in his book, Army Life in a Black Regiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.