Women and Men

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12mo. [5], vi, 1-326, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown cloth with blind borders on the boards, gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Signed by the author without personalization on the title page, with Cambridge, Mass. written under his signature. A book of essays on the societal, political, and literary conventions of the nineteenth century. National Park Service, "Thomas Wentworth Higginson". Higginson was an ardent abolitionist, advocate for women's suffrage, an advocate for the civil rights of Black Americans, and an advocate for the temperance movement. He officiated Lucy Stone's marriage to Henry Blackwell, commanded a unit of emancipated Black soldiers in South Carolina, and in general Higginson bucked the injustices of his time to fight for a better world. A spot of fading to the spine and the paper on the front hinge split but the binding is secure. N° de ref. del artículo 000013843

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