Cheerful Yesterdays (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Overview

This 1898 collection of the militant abolitionist’s essays and sketches includes “A Cambridge Boyhood,” “A Child of the College,” “The Rearing of a Reformer,” “The Fugitive Slave Epoch,” “Kansas and John Brown,” “Civil War,” “Literary London Twenty Years Ago,” and “On the Outskirts of Public Life,” among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411454224
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	05/17/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	851 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) was an American minister, soldier, abolitionist, and writer.  During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first African-American regiment.  After the war, he continued fighting for racial equality, and for women's rights as well.  He was a friend and editor of Emily Dickinson.