FREEDOM CALLING - Book Highlights
Emerson was a major influence on Celia, the main character in Freedom Calling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1803. He graduated from Harvard in 1821. He lived in in the antebellum South for a few years. He was opposed to slavery and supported President Lincoln, but was disappointed that Lincoln's greater goal was to preserve the Union and was less concerned with putting an end to slavery.
Emerson also traveled to Europe, but for most of his life he lived in Concord, Massachusetts. He called himself a transcendentalist and wrote a plethora of wonderful essays representing the core of his thinking, which include the well-known essays, "Nature", "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", and "Experience." His writings never boasted fixed philosophical tenets but instead promoted ideas of personal individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to achieve anything it could imagine. He also deeply explored the relationship between one's soul and the surrounding world.
A Few of Emerson's Quotes about BOOKS:
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”


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