Slavery in Massachusetts

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Henry David Thoreau

Central topics Civil Disobedience Herald of Freedom Life Without Principle The Last Days of John Brown 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 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 reënslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns.

Contents 1 See also 2 On-line sources 3 Book sources 4 External links

[edit] See also

• Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)

[edit] On-line sources

• Slavery in Massachusetts at Wikisource
• Slavery in Massachusetts at The Picket Line

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

• Editorial Savoir Faire: Thoreau Transforms His Journal into “Slavery in Massachusetts”
• Thoreau’s Stance on Abolition