A fascinating and deeply problematic figure whose antebellum militant abolitionism was coupled with his postbellum support for a pro-business social darwinism.
The links and tensions between these two currents in Beecher's life are of continuing relevance to US progressives today.
Henry Ward Beecher, born on this day, in 1813.
Today in #Connecticut History, June 24: Scandal-Plagued Celebrity Minister Henry Ward Beecher
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
― Henry Ward Beecher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher