Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Union United States Army officer
Died when: 87 years 138 days (1048 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier.He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism.
He was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown.During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized black regiment, from 1862 to 1864.
Following the war, he wrote about his experiences with African American soldiers and devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed people, women, and other disfranchised peoples.
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