A Plea for Captain John Brown

A Plea for Captain John Brown

by Henry David Thoreau
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Publication Date: 27/05/2019

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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.

ISBN:
1230003246900
1230003246900
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-05-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
EnvikaBook
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist.

Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden is a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the nineteenth century.

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