Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a Unitarian minister, abolitionist, essayist and soldier, who commanded the first regiment of formerly enslaved men raised for the Union army.

A frequent contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, he became the correspondent and later co-editor of Emily Dickinson's first posthumous volumes of poems. His own verse was collected in The Afternoon Landscape (1889) and later volumes.