- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
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- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
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- Love's Labor's Lost
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This quote provides another good example of the way in which personal experience and observation played a role in shifting Northern opinions on slavery. Black regiments in the Civil War were notably present in the above-named battles in the Vicksburg campaign along the Mississippi and also in South Carolina. James Beecher was from the prominent New England Beecher family who were noted for their social activism—Henry Ward Beecher was a famous abolitionist preacher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe authored the tremendously popular Uncle Tom’s Cabin—so it is not surprising that James Beecher, too, was prominent in pro-abolition causes. The North…