Archive Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Newspaper |
Title |
The Independent |
Catalog Number |
TRE2006.002.2398 |
Scope & Content |
Newspaper entitled "The Independent "; Vol. XV, No. 784 Articles Include: "Mr. Beecher's Speech" "Colored Troops In New York" "Lutheran Movements At The South" Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was a prominent, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century.[1] In 2007, The Most Famous Man in America: A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography |
Date |
December 10, 1863 |
Dates of Creation |
December 10, 1863 |
People |
Beecher, Henry Ward |
Search Terms |
black soldiers New York Lutherans |
Subjects |
Civil War, U.S. African Americans |