A Plea for Captain John Brown
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4.5 • 17 Ratings
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Publisher Description
It is an essay. 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 Harper’s Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown’s execution on December 2, 1859.
GENRE
History
RELEASED
1859
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
37
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
26
KB
Customer Reviews
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A Plea for Captain John Brown
As contemporary an argument for constitutional conscience as can be found. Calls out the “religious” for tolerance of evil. In short, it applies today as much if not more than when it was written. Outstanding!