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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 & co. 1881.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | NBY (Thoreau, H. D. Yankee in Canada. 1881) | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 3 p. ℓ., [3]-286 p.; 18 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- 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
- NBY (Thoreau, H. D. Yankee in Canada. 1881)
- OCLC
- 6137776
- 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 & co. 1881.
- Added Author
- Thoreau, Sophia E.Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901.Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
- Research Call Number
- NBY (Thoreau, H. D. Yankee in Canada. 1881)