Contents

• Pt. I. Abolitionist and Champion of Civil Rights
• 1. Not by Bread Alone
• 2. The School of Mobs
• 3. Obeying the Higher Law
• 4. A Ride Through Kanzas
• 5. Assorted Lots of Young Negroes
• 6. The New Revolution: What Commitment Requires
• 7. Why Back John Brown?
• 8. Miss Forten on the Southern Question
• 9. Letter to the Editor
• 10. The South Carolina Blacks
• 11. Letter to The Nation: "The Case of the Carpet-baggers"
• 12. Southern Barbarity
• 13. Lydia Maria Child
• 14. William Lloyd Garrison
• 15. Fourteen Years Later
• Pt. II. Colonel of the First Black Regiment
• 1. The Black Troops: "Intensely Human" - - 2. Negro Spirituals
• 3. Camp Diary
• 4. The Negro as Soldier
• 5. Grant
• 6. Memo from War of the Rebellion - - Pt. III. Crusader for Women’s Rights
• 1. Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?
• 2. Who Was Margaret Fuller?
• 3. The Shadow of the Harem
• 4. The Pleasing Art of Self- Extinction
• 5. Repression at Long Range
• 6. The Fact of Sex
• 7. Womanhood and Motherhood
• 8. "Chances"
• Pt. IV. Essayist as Activist
• 1. The Clergy and Reform - - 2. A New Counterblast
• 3. Scripture Idolatry
• 4. The Sympathy of Religions
• 5. Public and Private Virtues
• 6. "Tell the Truth"
• 7. More Mingled Races
• 8. Edward Bellamy’s Nationalism
• 9. The Complaint of the Poor
• 10. Where Liberty is Not, There is My Country
• 11. How Should a Colored Man Vote in 1900?
• 12. Higginson Answers Captain Mahan
• Pt. V. Naturalist
• 1. Water- Lilies
• 2. Snow
• 3. Oldport Wharves
• 4. The Life of Birds
• 5. The Procession of the Flowers
• Pt. VI. Critic as Essayist
• 1. Sappho
• 2. The Word Philanthropy
• 3. Unconscious Successes
• 4. Longfellow as a Poet
• 5. A Letter to a Young Contributor
• 6. Emily Dickinson
• 7. The Sunny Side of the Transcendental Period
• 8. The Literary Pendulum
• 9. Henry James, Jr