This is a biography of John Greenleaf Whittier, American Quaker poet and reformer. A pioneer in the development of regional literature as well as being a crusader for many humanitarian causes, he was a self-declared abolitionist. The contents include: Childhood; School Days and Early Ventures; Whittier the Politician; Enlistment for Life; The School of Mobs; A Division in the Ranks; Whittier as a Social Reformer; Personal Qualities; Whittier at Home; The Religious Side; Early Loves and Love Poetry; Whittier the Poet; and Closing Years. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.