Gilchrist, M. (2002) 'This Sacred Gift': Harriet & The Little Colonel. In: A Harriet Martineau Miscellany: Articles Contributed to the Newsletter of the Martineau Society or Given as Short Talks at its Meetings. The Martineau Society, pp. 103-109. ISBN 9780953484942
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Abstract
On 24 March 1864, Harriet Martineau wrote a letter of condolence to Sarah Shaw of Staten Island, on the death of her son, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. He had been killed in action at Battery Wagner the previous year, while commanding the first Northern-raised Black regiment. Sarah’s friend, Elizabeth Gaskell, had told Rob’s story to a British readership in an article in Macmillan’s Magazine, December 1863. It was not easy to find sympathisers; the mainstream British press was pro-Confederate. Sarah used the tragedy to reach out to the emotions of American and British Abolitionists: Rob’s death could not be allowed to be in vain.
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