1848 THOMAS W HIGGINSON. A Sermon on Slavery by Colonel of the First Black Regiment in the Civil War. Sermons An original poem addressed to

An original poem addressed to Ann  Hartley

The Star of the Wise Men

My friends have urged me not to take baptism

with special emphasis on Isaac Backus and the period of the Great Awakening

nearly complete homiletic corpus from a "typical" Connecticut Missionary Society missionary evangelist of the Second Great Awakening

1848 THOMAS W HIGGINSON. A Sermon on Slavery by Colonel of the First Black Regiment in the Civil War. Sermons An original poem addressed toA 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