![]() ![]() Whittier himself was not cut out for hard farm labor and suffered from bad health and physical frailty his whole life. The farm was not very profitable, and there was only enough money to get by. As a boy, it was discovered that Whittier was color-blind when he was unable to see a difference between ripe and unripe strawberries. ![]() He grew up on the farm in a household with his parents, a brother and two sisters, a maternal aunt and paternal uncle, and a constant flow of visitors and hired hands for the farm. His middle name is thought to mean feuillevert, after his Huguenot forebears. Whittier was born to John and Abigail ( née Hussey) Whittier at their rural homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1807. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings, as well as his 1866 book Snow-Bound. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. John Greenleaf Whittier (Decem– September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. ![]()
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