Welcome to Henry David Thoreau. Online, a website dedicated to one of the most important writers of the nineteenth-century United States and one of the leading personalities in New England Transcendentalism. American essayist, philosopher, poet, pacifist, individualist.

A Plea for Captain John Brown. Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass. , Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Born in Concord, Mass. Became a teacher in Canton, Massachusetts. stayed for a year here. He contracted tuberculosis and suffered from recurring bouts throughout his life. At this point he started going by the name Henry David Thoreau. Became a teacher at Center School.

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