Slavery in Massachusetts

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On-line 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)

v t e Henry David Thoreau
Speeches	Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)
Essays	"The Service" (1840) "A Walk to Wachusett" (1842) "Paradise (to be) Regained" (1843) "Sir Walter Raleigh" (1844) "Herald of Freedom" (1844) "Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum" (1845) "Reform and the Reformers" (1846–48) "Thomas Carlyle and His Works" (1847) "Resistance to Civil Government" ("Civil Disobedience") (1849) "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854) "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859) "The Last Days of John Brown" (1860) "Walking" (1861) "Life Without Principle" (1863) Excursions anthology (1863)
Books	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) Walden (1854)
Related	Thoreau Society The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse Concord Museum Walden Pond Walden Woods Project The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1969 play)