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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. 1849 essay by Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience First page of "Resistance to Civil Government" as published in Aesthetic Papers, in 1849. Author Henry David Thoreau Language English Publication place United States Media type Print Text Civil Disobedience at Wikisource This article ...
Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown was a speech given by Henry David Thoreau on December 2, 1859, the day of John Brown's execution. Thoreau gave a few brief remarks of his own, read poetry by Sir Walter Raleigh ("The Soul's Errand"), William Collins ("How Sleep the Brave"), Friedrich Schiller (excerpts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's translation of "The Death of Wallenstein"), William ...
Civil disobedience is the active and professed refusal of a ... Thoreau explained his reasons for having refused to pay taxes as an act of protest against slavery ...
Sir Walter Raleigh is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that has been reconstructed from notes he wrote for an 1843 lecture and drafts of an article he was preparing for The Dial. It was first published in 1950, in a collection of Thoreau's writings edited by Henry Aiken Metcalf.
Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay On Resistance to Civil Government—now usually referred to as Civil Disobedience—is part of the canon of American political philosophy. [6] It was prompted by Thoreau's refusal to pay a poll tax because of unwillingness to support a government that was enforcing the slavery of Americans and what he felt was ...
Thoreau's essay espoused John Brown and his fight for abolition. In opposition with popular opinion of the time – Thoreau vehemently refuted the claims of newspapers and his fellow countrymen who characterized Brown as foolish and insane – he painted a portrait of a peerless man whose embrace of a cause was unparalleled.
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
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. He read it at the July 4, 1860, memorial service held at Brown's home in North Elba .