Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau ; edited by Bob Pepperman Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Bob Pepperman, editor.

Series:

Broadview editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil disobedience.

Government, Resistance to.

Physical Description:

156 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ontario : Broadview Press, [2016]

Summary:

"In 1848 and again in 1849, Henry David Thoreau delivered a lecture in Concord, Massachusetts on "the relationship of the individual to the state." The essay now known as Civil Disobedience is a significant and widely admired contribution to abolitionist literature, as well as an anti-war tract, but Thoreau's focus is less on political organization and solidarity than it is on personal choice and individual responsibility. Cultivating personal integrity in the face of political injustice is the project Thoreau defends in Civil Disobedience; this focus has made the work highly influential to 20th- and 21st-century political movements."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Civil Disobedience 35

Appendix A Thoreau's Abolitionism Developed 59

1 From Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860) 59

Appendix B Abolitionism 79

1 Henry Highland Garnet, An Address to the Slaves of the United States (1865) 79

2 Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Tea-Table Talk (1836) 87

3 William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention (1852) 90

4 From William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention, The Liberator (28 September 1838) 94

5 William Lloyd Garrison, The American Union (1845) 98

Appendix C Sectionalism and the Constitution 103

1 Samuel Hoar, Report on His Mission to Charleston, South Carolina (1845) 103

2 From Daniel Webster, Exclusion of Slavery from the Territories (12 August 1848) 113

3 From Daniel Webster, Speech at Capon Springs, Virginia (28 June 1851) 118

Appendix D War with Mexico 123

1 From Abraham Lincoln, Speech in U.S. House of Representatives on the War with Mexico (1848) 123

Appendix E Moral and Philosophical Context 133

1 From William Paley, The Duty of Submission to Civil Government Explained (1822) 133

2 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Politics (1844) 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1554813018

9781554813018

OCLC:

956957852