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Henry david thoreau and civil disobedience
Henry david thoreau and civil disobedience









henry david thoreau and civil disobedience

"Civil Disobedience" was included in the Riverside Edition of 1894 (in Miscellanies, the tenth volume), in the Walden and Manuscript Editions of 1906 (in Cape Cod and Miscellanies, the fourth volume), and in the Princeton Edition (in Reform Papers, the third volume) in 1973. The essay formed part of Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers as edited by British Thoreau biographer Henry S.

henry david thoreau and civil disobedience

It was included (as "Civil Disobedience") in Thoreau's A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, published in Boston in 1866 by Ticknor and Fields, and reprinted many times. Having spent one night in jail in July of 1846 for refusal to pay his poll tax in protest against slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau lectured before the Concord Lyceum in January of 1848 on the subject "On the Relation of the Individual to the State." The lecture was published under the title "Resistance to Civil Government" in Elizabeth Peabody's Aesthetic Papers, in May 1849.

  • Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers".
  • Selected Chronology of Thoreau's Writings.
  • Emerson's "The Divinity School Address".
  • Selective Chronology of Emerson's Writings.
  • Forms of Expressing Transcendental Philosophy.










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