Slavery in Massachusetts explained

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

External links

• • Thoreau’s Stance on Abolition