| Description |
286 pages ; 18 cm |
| Contents |
A Yankee in Canada.--Anti-slavery and reform papers: Slavery in Massachusetts.--Prayers.--Civil disobedience.--A plea for Captain John Brown.--Paradise (to be) regained.--Herald of freedom.--Thomas Carlyle and his works.--Life without principle.--Wendell Phillips before the Concord lyceum.--The last days of John Brown |
| Notes |
First edition, edited by Sophia Thoreau and W. E. Channing |
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The first three chapters appeared in Putnam's magazine 1853 under the title of "Excursion to Canada" |
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"Prayers" was attributed to Thoreau by mistake, only a prayer in verse included being his. The essay itself, first published in the Dial, is by Emerson and is now published in his Natural history of the intellect |
| Subject |
Brown, John, 1800-1859.
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Slavery -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
Québec (Province) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85109773
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| Author |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
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Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901, editor
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Thoreau, Sophia E., editor
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| LC no. |
07017111 |
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