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Herald of Freedom (revised edition): Essays of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, Radical Abolitionist and American Transcendentalist
Herald of Freedom Essays of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers Radical Abolitionist and American Transcendentalist - revised edition Author:Crispin Sartwell, Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, Henry David Thoreau "But to speak of his composition. It is a genuine Yankee style, without fiction ? real guessing and calculating to some purpose. It has a life above grammar, and a meaning which need not be parsed to be understood. We deem such timely, pure, and unpremeditated expressions of a public sentiment, such publicity of genuine indignation and humanity,... more » as abound everywhere in [The Herald of Freedom], the most generous gifts a man can make, and should be glad to see the scraps from which we have quoted, and the others which we have not seen, collected into a volume." --Henry David Thoreau Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1794-1846) is an important, almost-undiscovered American radical and nature writer. Spending almost his whole career as a newspaper editor in Concord, New Hampshire, he was admired by Emerson and Thoreau for his passionate abolitionism and his profound and delightful nature writing. Rogers was as radical as any person of his era, opposing the political state, religious authority, and hierarchies of race, gender, capital, and even species. His writing is plain-spoken but deep, and he often sounds startlingly contemporary with our own period, which continues to struggle with many of the same issues. This book collects 27 of Rogers' essays along with Thoreau's essay on Rogers and supporting materials. It re-introduces a great, unknown American transcendentalist.« less