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CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. “A Respectable, If Ordinary Boyhood” 9 2. “Greece! Greece! . . . I thought no land . . . could ever look more sweetly” 29 3. “The Cadmus of the Blind” 51 4. A Phrenologist and a Superintendent 86 5. Private Lives, Public Causes 119 6. For Free Soil and Free Men 170 7. War, Freedmen, and Crete 214 8. Santo Domingo—the Perpetual Summer 255 Abbreviations 273 Notes 275 Index 319 “This page intentionally left blank” ...

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