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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]
Subjects:	Antislavery movements. Slavery. Civil disobedience. Justice. Mouvements antiesclavagistes. Désobéissance civile. speeches (documents) Essays. Speeches. Discours.

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