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| Acknowledgments | xi |
| Chronology | xiii |
| Introduction | 1 |
| PART I Abolitionist and Champion of Civil Rights | 41 |
| 1 Not by Bread Alone | 47 |
| 2 The School of Mobs | 52 |
| 3 Obeying the Higher Law | 60 |
| 4 A Ride Through Kanzas | 74 |
| 5 Assorted Lots of Young Negroes | 101 |
| 6 The New Revolution: What Commitment Requires | 106 |
| 7 Why Back John Brown? | 117 |
| 8 Miss Forten on the Southern Question | 124 |
| 9 Letter to the Editor | 128 |
| 10 The South Carolina Blacks | 130 |
| 11 Letter to The Nation: "The Case of the | |
| Carpet-baggers" | 133 |
| 12 Southern Barbarity | 136 |
| 13 Lydia Maria Child | 138 |
| 14 William Lloyd Garrison | 155 |
| 15 Fourteen YearsLater | 162 |
| PART II Colonel of the First Black Regiment | 175 |
| 1 The Black Troops: "Intensely Human" | 178 |
| 2 Negro Spirituals | 190 |
| 3 Camp Diary | 212 |
| 4 The Negro as Soldier | 233 |
| 5 Grant | 247 |
| 6 Memo from War of the Rebellion | 260 |
| PART III Crusader for Women's Rights | 263 |
| 1 Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet? | 266 |
| 2 Who Was Margaret Fuller? | 283 |
| 3 The Shadow of the Harem | 303 |
| 4 The Pleasing Art of Self-Extinction | 306 |
| 5 Repression at Long Range | 309 |
| 6 The Fact of Sex | 312 |
| 7 Womanhood and Motherhood | 315 |
| 8 "Chances" | 318 |
| PART IV Essayist as Activist | 321 |
| 1 The Clergy and Reform | 324 |
| 2 A New Counterblast | 331 |
| 3 Scripture Idolatry | 344 |
| 4 The Sympathy of Religions | 354 |
| 5 Public and Private Virtues | 375 |
| 6 "Tell the Truth" | 378 |
| 7 More Mingled Races | 381 |
| 8 Edward Bellamy's Nationalism | 384 |
| 9 The Complaint of the Poor | 396 |
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| 10 Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country | 399 |
| 11 How Should a Colored Man Vote in 1900? | 402 |
| 12 Higginson Answers Captain Mahan | 404 |
| PART V Naturalist | 411 |
| 1 Water-Lilies | 414 |
| 2 Snow | 427 |
| 3 Oldport Wharves | 447 |
| 4 The Life of Birds | 457 |
| 5 The Procession of the Flowers | 471 |
| PART VI Critic as Essayist | 483 |
| 1 Sappho | 489 |
| 2 The Word Philanthropy | 506 |
| 3 Unconscious Successes | 515 |
| 4 Longfellow as a Poet | 518 |
| 5 A Letter to a Young Contributor | 528 |
| 6 Emily Dickinson | 543 |
| 7 The Sunny Side of the Transcendental Period | 565 |
| 8 The Literary Pendulum | 577 |
| 9 Henry James, Jr | 581 |
| Bibliography | 587 |
| Publishing History | 591 |
| About the Author | 596 |
| Index | 597 |
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reviewed The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) on November 21, 2013
The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
I had the great opportunity of reading this book while taking a class on women science fiction writers from the author, Jane Donawerth, when I was attending the University of Maryland.
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