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Author Talk with Douglas R. Egerton – A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Join us for our latest author talk as Douglas Egerton speaks on his latest book, A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

A follower of Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a passionate abolitionist and supporter of John Brown.

“Egerton’s biography is a welcome picture of a man who battled inequality on a wide range of fronts and maintained friendships with some of the most interesting people of the era.” WSJ