Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers

by Henry David Thoreau

ANTI-SLAVERY
AND
REFORM PAPERS

 

BY
HENRY D. THOREAU

 

Selected and Edited
BY H. S. SALT.

 

 

LONDON:
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1890.

Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.

CONTENTS.

1. PAGE

2. Introductory Note ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   1

3. Civil Disobedience ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   21

4. A Plea for Captain John Brown ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   51

5. The Last Days of John Brown ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   82

6. Paradise (to be) Regained ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   91

7. Life without Principle ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   115