Slavery in Massachusetts

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Henry David Thoreau

Core works and topics Civil Disobedience Herald of Freedom The Last Days of John Brown Life Without Principle Paradise (to be) Regained A Plea for Captain John Brown Reform and the Reformers Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown The Service Sir Walter Raleigh Slavery in Massachusetts Thomas Carlyle and His Works Walden A Walk to Wachusett A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Thoreau Society
Related topics Abolitionism Anarchism Anarchism in the United States Civil disobedience Concord, Massachusetts Conscientious objection Direct action Ecology Environmentalism History of tax resistance Individualist anarchism John Brown Lyceum movement Nonviolent resistance Ralph Waldo Emerson Simple living Tax resistance Tax resisters Transcendentalism The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Walden Pond
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Slavery in Massachusetts is an 1854 essay by Henry David Thoreau based on a speech he gave at an anti-slavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1854, after the re-enslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns.

See also

Civil Disobedience by Thoreau

On-line sources

Slavery in Massachusetts at Wikisource
A complete collection of Thoreau's essays, including Slavery in Massachusetts at Standard Ebooks
Slavery in Massachusetts at The Picket Line
Slavery in Massachusetts at eserver.org (annotated)

Book sources

My Thoughts are Murder to the State by Henry David Thoreau (ISBN 978-1434804266)
The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform (ISBN 978-0691118765)
Collected Essays and Poems by Henry David Thoreau (ISBN 978-1-88301195-6)

External links

Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert (2006), Editorial Savoir Faire: Thoreau Transforms His Journal into Slavery in Massachusetts, archived from the original on March 30, 2014
Thoreau’s Stance on Abolition

v t e Henry David Thoreau
Books	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) Walden (1854)
Speeches	Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)
Essays	"The Service" (1840) "A Walk to Wachusett" (1842) "Paradise (to be) Regained" (1843) "Sir Walter Raleigh" (1844) "Herald of Freedom" (1844) "Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum" (1845) "Reform and the Reformers" (1846–1848) Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847) Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) (1849) Slavery in Massachusetts (1854) A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) The Last Days of John Brown (1860) "Walking" (1861) "Life Without Principle" (1863) Excursions anthology (1863)
Related	Thoreau Society The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse (birthplace) Thoreau–Alcott House Concord Museum Walden Pond Walden Woods Project The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1969 play) Thoreau: A Sublime Life (2012 comic book)

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