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Genre/Form: | History Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | S G Howe; S G Howe; S G Howe |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James W Trent, Jr. |
ISBN: | 9781558499584 155849958X 9781558499591 1558499598 |
OCLC Number: | 768167116 |
Description: | ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | "A respectable, if ordinary boyhood" -- "Greece! Greece! -- I thought no land -- could ever look more sweetly" -- "The Cadmus of the blind" -- A phrenologist and a superintendent -- Private lives, public causes -- For free soil and free men -- War, freedmen, and Crete -- Santo Domingo : the perpetual summer. |
Responsibility: | James W. Trent Jr. |
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Abstract:
This biography of Howe focuses on his reform activities in the antebellum period, his philanthrophy for the disabled, his work for the abolitionist cause, and his friendships with famed Americans of his age.
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