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A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers.

Title
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers. By Henry D. Thoreau.
Author
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Publication
Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

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Additional Authors
  • Thoreau, Sophia E.
  • Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901.
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Description
3 p. l., [3]-286 p.; 18 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • First edition, edited by Sophia Thoreau and W. E. Channing.
  • The first three chapters appeared in Putnam's magazine 1853 under the title of "Excursion to Canada".
  • "Prayers" was attributed to Thoreau by mistake, only a prayer in verse included being his. The essay itself, first published in the Dial, is by Emerson and is now published in his Natural history of the intellect.
Contents
A Yankee in Canada.--Anti-slavery and reform papers: Slavery in Massachusetts.--Prayers.--Civil disobedience.--A plea for Captain John Brown.--Paradise (to be) regained.--Herald of freedom.--Thomas Carlyle and his works.--Life without principle.--Wendell Phillips before the Concord lyceum.--The last days of John Brown.
Call Number
Sc 917.1-T (Thoreau, H. Yankee in Canada. 1866)
LCCN
07017111
OCLC
2453888
Author
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Title
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers. By Henry D. Thoreau.
Imprint
Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
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Local Subject
Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 1849-1860.
Added Author
Thoreau, Sophia E.
Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Research Call Number
Sc 917.1-T (Thoreau, H. Yankee in Canada. 1866)
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