363 pages, frontispiece (portrait), cloth, dust jacket, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. Includes his Civil War service as colonel of a Negro regiment, the First North Carolina Volunteers. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 'Higginsson (1823-1911) American author, b. Cambridge, Mass. A Unitarian minister, he was a leader in the abolitionist movement. His Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870), which recounts his experiences as colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first black regiment in the Civil War, was the basis of the film Glory (1989). A versatile author and an able scholar, he wrote essays; popular histories; a novel, Malbone (1869); and biographies and reminiscences of political and literary friends. In 1890–91, with M. L. Todd, he edited the Poems of his friend Emily Dickinson. A lifelong radical, in his old age (1906), Higginson joined with Jack London and Upton Sinclair to found the Intercollegiate Socialist Society.'

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON BIOGRAPHY