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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience/A Plea for Captain John Brown, Paperback / softback Book

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience/A Plea for Captain John Brown Paperback / softback

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This Henry David Thoreau volume is a compilation of two great Thoreau works, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" and "A Plea for Captain John Brown." The former title argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, while the latter was based on a speech pleading for the life of abolitionist John Brown.

Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860.

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