Cheerful Yesterdays: Life of an Author, Traveler, Abolitionist, Soldier, Suffragist (Abridged)

Thomas Wentworth Higginson led one of the most active and accomplished lives of the 19th century. An ardent abolitionist well before the American Civil War, when war came he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized black regiment, from 1862–1864. He was badly wounded and mustered out.

For the decade before the war, he was one of America's leading supporters of rights for women. He spent the rest of his life fighting for the rights of free African...