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Slavery in Massachusetts

By Henry David Thoreau
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By Henry David Thoreau
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"I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour."

- Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)

Slavery in Massachusetts (1854) was originally delivered as a speech on July 4, 1854, at an anti-slavery rally in Framingham, Massachusetts, defending the rights of Baptist "slave preacher," Anthony Burns. Burns had escaped slavery in Virginia and was later captured in Boston, put on trial, and returned to Virginia. Later publi...

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