Colonel Shaw and His Black Regiment
Two essays: a lyrical evocation of the White Mountains in winter and a biographical sketch of Colonel Robert G. Shaw, his service and leadership of the 54th Massachusetts.
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Colonel Shaw and His Black Regiment
William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist
Biography of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Traces his family background, his mother's struggles, childhood in Newburyport, and hardships that shaped his moral resolve.
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The Life of Charles Sumner: The Scholar in Politics
Biography of Charles Sumner tracing his family background, education, and rise as a leading abolitionist and political reformer who fought against slavery in the U.S.
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Frederick Douglass
Hampton Institute fights to keep federal funding for its nonsectarian Black and Native schooling. Includes a tribute to Frederick Douglass’s rise from slavery through self-education.
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Mr. Lincoln’s Letter to a Sorrowing Mother
Howard's American Magazine (Mar 1900) critiques Lincoln's motives for emancipation, praises abolitionists, and urges Black intellectual independence. Includes the poem 'The Psalm of a Race.'
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A Madonna of the South
Accounts of Hampton Institute's work uplifting Black and Indian communities through education, land ownership, and school-building. Also a portrait of a mother's faith and home-training of her sons.
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To W.L.G. on Reading His ‘Chosen Queen’
Abolitionist critique arguing the U.S. Constitution protects slavery and condemning partisan, sectarian Christians. Urges a non‑sectarian Christian brotherhood to advance emancipation.
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A Parting Hymn and the Angel’s Visit
Biographical sketch of Charlotte L. Forten, an African American poet and teacher. Traces her education in Salem, literary gifts, poems, and dignified achievement amid racial exclusion.
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New-Year’s Day on the Islands of South Carolina, 1863
Vivid 1863 accounts of New-Year's/Emancipation Day on South Carolina islands: freedpeople celebrating at Camp Saxton, schoolchildren, hymn-singing (Whittier), and joyful songs of deliverance.
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Life on the Sea Islands
Report from the Sea Islands (Hilton Head, St. Helena) after emancipation: scenes of freedpeople’s daily life, churches, schools, hymns, housing, and the challenges of transition.
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Madame Thérèse, Or, The Volunteers of ‘92
Preface and opening of Erckmann–Chatrian's Madame Thérèse: introduction to the authors, their collaborative method, and a gentle depiction of rural Alsatian village life.
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A Vist to the Birthplace of Whittier
Travel and literary sketches from Scribner's Monthly (Sept 1872): Paris and mountain scenes, a visit to Whittier's birthplace, and the poem "Found Wanting."
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The Queen of the Bees
Poem and short story set in Switzerland about blind Roesel, her intimate bond with bees and nature, and meditations on suffering, compassion, and the mystery of God.
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