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Beecher, Henry Ward
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart
Beecher, Henry Ward
(1813–87), son of Lyman Beecher and brother of Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a celebrated Congregational minister, moral crusader, and lecturer. At his Plymouth (Congregational) Church in Brooklyn, he became the outstanding pulpit orator of his day, being immensely popular for his sentimental and high-flown rhetoric in sermons on political, social, and religious subjects. He was an ardent champion of antislavery and during the Civil War delivered a popular series of lectures in England on behalf of the Union cause. His sermons were ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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