Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown information
1859 speech by Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
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Civil Disobedience
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The Last Days of John Brown
Life Without Principle
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A Plea for Captain John Brown
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Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown
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Slavery in Massachusetts
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Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown was a speech given by Henry David Thoreau on December 2, 1859, the day of John Brown's execution. Thoreau gave a few brief remarks of his own, read poetry by Sir Walter Raleigh ("The Soul's Errand"), William Collins ("How Sleep the Brave"), Friedrich Schiller (excerpts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's translation of "The Death of Wallenstein"), William Wordsworth (excerpts from "Alas! What boots the long laborious quest"), Alfred Tennyson (excerpts from "Maud"), George Chapman (excerpts from "Conspirary of Charles, Duke of Byron"), and Henry Wotton ("The Character of a Happy Life"), and then quoted from his own translation of Tacitus.[1]
^Gross, David M. (30 October 1859). "H.D. Thoreau on John Brown • TPL". The Picket Line. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
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