Slavery in Massachusetts

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.

This article is about Thoreau's essay. For the topic itself, see History of slavery in Massachusetts.

See also

• Civil Disobedience by Thoreau

On-line sources

• Slavery in Massachusetts at Wikisource
• A complete collection of Thoreau's essays, including Slavery in Massachusetts at Standard Ebooks
• 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 (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)

External links

• Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert (2006), Editorial Savoir Faire: Thoreau Transforms His Journal into Slavery in Massachusetts, archived from the original on March 30, 2014
• Thoreau’s Stance on Abolition