Army Life in a Black Regiment
and Other Writings
A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slavesThomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas.Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson's interest in both man and nature, Army Life in a Black Regiment ranges from…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-22166-2
- EAN: 9781101221662
- Produktnummer: 17992595
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 459 KB
Über den Autor
R. D. Madison is a professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He has edited several volumes of military and naval history, including William Bligh and Edward Christian's The Bounty Mutiny for Penguin Classics.
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