The Last Days of John Brown

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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 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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The Last Days of John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau written in 1860 that praised the executed abolitionist militia leader John Brown.

[edit] On-line sources

• The Last Days of John Brown at The Picket Line

[edit] Printed 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)