"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.
Overview
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.
See also
Civil Disobedience by Thoreau
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
The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform
Collected Essays and Poems by Henry David Thoreau
