a courthouse door in Boston in an attempt to free the fugitive slave Anthony Burns. In 1856 he helped arm antislavery settlers in Kansas and, a loaded pistol in his belt, admitted almost sheepishly,"I enjoy danger." Afterward he preached sedition while furnishing money and morale to John Brown.
All this had occurred by the time [Emily] Dickinson asked him if he was too busy to read her poems, as if it were the most reasonable request in the world.
from The Wall Street Journal: Book Excerpt: 'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson' By Brenda Wineapple
also Truthdig: Jane Ciabattari on Emily Dickinson's Friendship With Abolitionist
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