''Slavery in Massachusetts'' is an 1854 essay by
Henry David Thoreau based on a speech he gave at an
anti-slavery
Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved people.
The Britis ...
rally at
Framingham, Massachusetts
Framingham () is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Incorporated in 1700, it is located in Middlesex County and the MetroWest subregion of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The city proper covers with a pop ...
, 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
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*
Slavery in Massachusetts' at ''The Picket Line''
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
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{{Henry David Thoreau
Essays by Henry David Thoreau
1854 essays
African-American history of Massachusetts