2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in abolitionism in the United States 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. Signed cut signature, “Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cambridge Mass.” The 1st South Carolina Volunteers is Born, in July, Congress passed the 2nd Confiscation Act that permitted the "employment” of Black people to suppress the rebellion. The next month, Abraham Lincoln quietly granted permission to the Secretary of War to begin recruiting a limited number of Black soldiers. This was to be an experiment at Black military recruitment in anticipation for an Emancipation Proclamation, which Lincoln had suggested to his Cabinet in July.
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