"Slavery in Massachusetts" is an 1854 essay by Henry David Thoreau based on a speech he gave at an anti-slavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1854, after the re-enslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns.
Sources My Thoughts are Murder to the State by Henry David Thoreau () The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform () Collected Essays and Poems by Henry David Thoreau ()
External links
Thoreau’s Stance on Abolition
Slavery in Massachusetts at The Picket Line "Slavery in Massachusetts" at eserver.org (annotated)