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100 1 _aThoreau, Henry David,
_d1817-1862
245 1 2 _aA Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2023
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Yankee_in_Canada,_with_Anti-Slavery_and_Reform_Papers
500 _aThe first three chapters appeared in Putnam's magazine 1853 under the title of "Excursion to Canada".
500 _aFirst edition, edited by Sophia Thoreau and W. E. Channing.
500 _a"Prayers" was attributed to Thoreau by mistake, only a prayer in verse included being his. The essay itself, first published in the Dial, is by Emerson and is now published in his Natural history of the intellect.
500 _aRelease date is 2023-02-23
505 0 _aA Yankee in Canada: Concord to Montreal. Quebec and Montmorenci. St. Anne. The walls of Quebec. The scenery of Quebec; and the River St. Lawrence -- Anti-slavery and reform papers: Slavery in Massachusetts. Prayers. Civil disobedience. A plea for Captain John Brown. Paradise (to be) regained. Herald of freedom. Thomas Carlyle and his works. Life without principle. Wendell Phillips before the Concord Lyceum. The last days of John Brown.
508 _aCharlene Taylor, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers" by Henry David Thoreau is an anthology published in 1866. Compiled after his death, this collection gathers diverse writings including Thoreau's travel account of Quebec and Montreal, his groundbreaking essay "Civil Disobedience," and passionate abolitionist addresses defending John Brown. The anthology showcases Thoreau's sharp critiques of social institutions, his moral stance against slavery, and his reflections on literature and reform, revealing the breadth of his intellectual concerns beyond his famous nature writings. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: Ticknor and Fields, 1866
653 _aBrown, John, 1800-1859
653 _aSlavery -- United States
653 _aQuébec (Province) -- Description and travel
700 1 _aEmerson, Ralph Waldo,
_d1803-1882
700 1 _aChanning, William Ellery,
_d1817-1901
700 1 _aThoreau, Sophia E.,
_d1819-1876
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/yankeeincanadawi00thor/page/n1/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70123
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