John Greenleaf Whittier (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), a member of nineteenth century New England’s Fireside Poets school, was active in the movement to abolish slavery in America but was violently harassed by pro-slavery mobs for his beliefs. This authorized 1884 life story is a memoir of the man both as artist and activist.