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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson entered his military career fairly late in life. By the time the Civil War began, however, Higginson had been advocating for disunion for a number of years.
Higginson studied theology at Harvard Divinity School but left after a year to oppose the impending war with Mexico. Believing the Mexican-American War was an excuse to expand slavery, Higginson responded to the crisis by writing abolitionist poetry and collecting signatures for anti-war petitions. Eventually, Higginson returned to divinity school and later entered the ministry. However, his radical abolitionist sermons proved to be too much for his first congregation, and he was forced to resign.
In 1850, with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, Higginson became outraged; believing that God’s law called Christians to oppose the Act, he joined the Boston Vigilance Committee, an organization that protected fugitive slaves. In a sermon entitled "Massachusetts in Mourning," Higginson challenged his congregation to end the scourge of slavery by any means:
"If you take part in politics henceforward, let it be only to bring nearer the crisis which will either save or sunder this nation.”
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the freedom jubilee
“Colonel Higginson was a man on fire,” read one obituary. “He had convictions and lived up to them in the fullest degree.” The obituary added that he had “led the first negro regiment, contributed to the literature of America, and left an imprint upon history too deep to be obliterated.” Thomas Wentworth Higginson would have been pleased to have been referred to as “colonel.” He was proud of his military service and happily used the title for many decades after the end of the Civil War and up to his death in May 1911 at the age of eighty-seven.
Nonetheless, his time in the army was just one of many things for which he hoped to be remembered. “I never shall have a biographer, I suppose,” he mused to his diary in 1881. Just in case somebody took up the challenge, however, he wished to provide a hint about his career. “If I do” find a chronicler, he wrote, “the key to my life is easily to be found in this, that what I longed for from childhood was not to be eminent in this or that way, but to lead a whole life, develop all my powers, & do well in whatever came in my way to do.”
Yet while it was a life marked by numerous struggles for social justice and progressive causes, from abolitionism to women’s rights, from religious
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Abraham Lincoln: A History/Volume 2
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