The active soul : Emerson and Thoreau on reform and civil disobedience /

"Emerson and Thoreau are worth studying for their response to a burgeoning techno-industrial capitalist world, as well as the intolerable and seemingly intractable institution that fueled it: slavery. Their abolitionist work is the main focus of the essays and speeches in this volume. By explor...

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Main Authors: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (Author), Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 (Author)
Corporate Author: Mercer University Press
Other Authors: Homestead, William (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2025]
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505 0 |a Emerson, The Over-Soul (1841) -- Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849) -- Emerson, The Fugitive Slave Law (1854) -- Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts (1854) -- Emerson, John Brown (1860) -- Thoreau, The Last Days of John Brown (1860) 
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