Slavery in Massachusetts
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"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 re-enslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns
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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)