"Herald of Freedom" was an essay by Henry David Thoreau, published in ''

The Dial ''The Dial'' was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. From the 1880s to 1919 it was revived as a political review and ...

'' in 1844, that praised '' Herald of Freedom'', the journal of the

New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society Stephen Symonds Foster (November 17, 1809 – September 13, 1881) was a radical American abolitionist known for his dramatic and aggressive style of public speaking, and for his stance against those in the church who failed to fight slavery. His ma ...

, and its editor,

Nathaniel P. Rogers Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (June 3, 1794 – October 16, 1846) was an American attorney turned abolitionist writer, who served, from June 1838 until June 1846, as editor of the New England anti-slavery newspaper '' Herald of Freedom''. He was also ...

. After Rogers died, Thoreau revised the essay and republished it.

On-line sources

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Herald of Freedom
at ''The Picket Line''.

Printed 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 () 1844 essays Essays by Henry David Thoreau Works originally published in The Dial {{poli-essay-stub