| Author | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
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| Title | A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers. By Henry D. Thoreau.
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| Published | Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
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| Description | 286 p. 18 cm.
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| General Note | First edition, edited by Sophia Thoreau and W. E. Channing.
The first three chapters appeared in Putnam's magazine 1853 under the title of "Excursion to Canada".
"Prayers" was attributed to Thoreau by mistake, only a prayer in verse included being his. The essay itself, first published in the Dial, is by Emerson and is now published in his Natural history of the intellect.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: A Yankee in Canada.--Anti-slavery and reform papers: Slavery in Massachusetts.--Prayers.--Civil disobedience.--A plea for Captain John Brown.--Paradise (to be) regained.--Herald of freedom.--Thomas Carlyle and his works.--Life without principle.--Wendell Phillips before the Concord lyceum.--The last days of John Brown.
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| Subjects | Brown, John, 1800-1859.
Québec (Province) -- Description and travel.
Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 19th century.
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| Other Authors | Thoreau, Sophia E., ed.
Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901. joint ed.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
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| LC Card Number | 07-17111 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 1052 T48
mq162583: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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