Slavery in Massachusetts

Slavery in Massachusetts

"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.

ee also

* Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)

On-line sources

* "" at Wikisource
* " [http://www.sniggle.net/Experiment/index.php?entry=sim Slavery in Massachusetts] " at "The Picket Line"

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

* [http://thoreau.eserver.org/edsav1.html Editorial Savoir Faire: Thoreau Transforms His Journal into “Slavery in Massachusetts”]
* [http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/abolition-hdt.html Thoreau’s Stance on Abolition]


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