The Last Days of John Brown

The Last Days of John Brown

"The Last Days of John Brown" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau written in 1860 that praised the executed abolitionist militia leader "John Brown".

On-line sources

* " [http://www.sniggle.net/Experiment/index.php?entry=johnbrown#lastdays The Last Days of John Brown] " at "The Picket Line"

Dead-tree sources

* "My Thoughts are Murder to the State" by Henry David Thoreau (ISBN 978-1434804266)
* "The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform" (ISBN 978-0691118765)
* "Collected Essays and Poems" by Henry David Thoreau (ISBN 978-1-88301195-6)


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