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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, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc 917.1-T (Thoreau, H. Yankee in Canada. 1885) | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- 3 p. l., [3]-286 p.; 19 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. 1885)
- OCLC
- 27884283
- NYPGR27884283-B
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Title
- A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers, by Henry D. Thoreau.
- Imprint
- Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885.
- Edition
- 12th ed.
- Local Subject
- Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 1849-1860.
- Research Call Number
- Sc 917.1-T (Thoreau, H. Yankee in Canada. 1885)