Slavery in Massachusetts

"Slavery in Massachusetts" is an 1854 essay by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist...

 based on a speech he gave at an anti-slavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts

Framingham, Massachusetts

Framingham is a New England town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 68,318 as of the United States 2010 Census. -History:...

, on July 4, 1854, after the re-enslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns

Anthony Burns

Anthony Burns was born a slave in Stafford County, Virginia. As a young man, he became a Baptist and a "slave preacher"...

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On-line sources

• Slavery in Massachusetts at Wikisource
• Slavery in Massachusetts at The Picket Line
• Slavery in Massachusetts at eserver.org (annotated)

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

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