Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson (22 décembre 1823 – 9 mai 1911) était un pasteur unitarien et un abolitionniste américain. Candidat du Free Soil Party en 1850, il était partisan de l'action directe contre la loi sur les esclaves fugitifs de 1850 et mena en 1854 l'assaut contre le palais de justice de Boston où était détenu Anthony Burns. Pendant la guerre de Sécession, il servit comme colonel du First South Carolina Volunteers, le premier régiment autorisé par le pouvoir fédéral à être composé d'Afro-Américains mais dont les officiers étaient blancs[1].

Il entretint par ailleurs une correspondance suivie avec Emily Dickinson dont il coédita après la mort deux volumes de poèmes qu'il remania pour partie.

Notes et références

  1. ↑ Tilden G. Edelstein. « Higginson, Thomas Wentworth », American National Biography Online, [lire en ligne]

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