Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Activism

Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Activism

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a radical abolitionist active as a minister, writer, and soldier. He was involved in supporting John Brown and commanded one of the Union's early Black regiments during the Civil War, putting the philosophy of liberation into practice. After the war, he spread egalitarian ideas through memoirs and essays, and actively engaged in the women's suffrage movement and educational reform.

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Year Thomas Wentworth Higginson
1780
Abolition Movement of the Slave Trade (Age: 43 years before birth, Period: 1780s–1790s, Location: Rhode Island and New England)
1823
Birth of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Period: December 22, 1823, Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
1846
Mexican-American War (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1846–1848, Location: Northern Mexico, Coahuila, etc.)
1847
Marriage (Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mary Elizabeth Channing, Age: 23 years old, Period: 1847, Location: Massachusetts, United States)
1850
Resistance movement against the Fugitive Slave Act (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1850s, Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1854
Anthony Burns rescue incident (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1854, Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1859
Support for John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1859, Location: Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States (present-day))
1861
American Civil War (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: North Carolina, Virginia, etc.)
1862
Correspondence with Emily Dickinson (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1862 onwards, Location: Massachusetts, United States)
1863
Emancipation Proclamation (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1863, Location: United States)
1911
Death of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Age: 87 years old, Period: May 9, 1911)

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