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THBThomas Wentworth Higginson the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops 1st Black U.S. Army Regt
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Commanded the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops the first Black U.S. Armed Forces Regiment
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON (1823-1911). Commanded the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, the first Black Regiment in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Undated, 4" x 2.25" Inscription and Signature, "For Miss Helen McDonnell / Thomas Wentworth Higginson / Cambridge, Mass," Very Fine. Prior mounting remnants on the blank reverse. On the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), Higginson joined the Boston Vigilance Committee to aid escaping slaves. While pastor of a "Free Church" in Worcester, Massachusetts (1852-1861), he took a leading part in liberating the fugitive Anthony Burns (1854), and he supported John Brown both in Kansas (1856) and in his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (1859). Scarce.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON (1823-1911). Ordained after graduating from Harvard Divinity School (1847), Higginson became pastor of the First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he preached a social gospel too liberal even for Unitarians. Two years later his progressive views on temperance, women's rights, labor, and slavery caused him to lose his congregation.
On the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), Higginson joined the Boston Vigilance Committee to aid escaping slaves. While pastor of a "Free Church" in Worcester, Massachusetts (1852-1861), he took a leading part in liberating the fugitive Anthony Burns (1854), and he supported John Brown both in Kansas (1856) and in his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (1859).
During the early part of the Civil War, Higginson was a Captain in the 51st Massachusetts Infantry from November 1862 to October 1864, when he was retired because of a wound received in the preceding August. He accepted command as Colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, later the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, the first Black regiment in the U.S. armed forces, the first authorized regiment recruited from freedmen for Union military service. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton required that black regiments be commanded by white officers.
After 1864, he wrote a series of popular biographies and histories and a novel. Higginson described his Civil War experiences in Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870). He contributed to the preservation of Negro spirituals by copying dialect verses and music he heard sung around the regiment's campfires.
In his book, Drawn by the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, , 1996), historian James M. McPherson asserted that Higginson's service as a Union soldier showed in part that he did not share the "powerful racial prejudices" of others during the time period.
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