1848 THOMAS W HIGGINSON. A Sermon on Slavery by Colonel of the First Black Regiment in the Civil War. Sermons The Star of the Wise

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1848 THOMAS W HIGGINSON. A Sermon on Slavery by Colonel of the First Black Regiment in the Civil War. Sermons The Star of the WiseA very desirable early publication by the abolitionist minister turned soldier and Colonel of the very first Black Regiment mustered during the Civil War. This account has of course been famously re told in the film, Glory. Thomas Wentworth Higginson [1823 1911] was a radical abolitionist during the 1840's and 50's, a member of the Secret Six who helped fund and support John Brown and the Raid at Harper's Ferry. A graduate of Harvard, he became