Table of Contents
Introduction
Civil Disobedience
Appendix A: Thoreau’s Abolitionism Developed
- From Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860)
Appendix B: Abolitionism
- Henry Highland Garnet, Address to the Slaves of the United States (1865)
- Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Tea-Table Talk (1836)
- William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1852)
- From William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention, The Liberator (28 Sept. 1838)
- William Lloyd Garrison, The American Union (1845)
Appendix C: Sectionalism and the Constitution
- Samuel Hoar, Report on His Mission to Charleston, South Carolina (1845)
- From Daniel Webster, Exclusion of Slavery from the Territories, 12 August 1848
- From Daniel Webster, Speech at Capon Springs, Virginia, 28 June 1851
Appendix D: War with Mexico
- From Abraham Lincoln, Speech in U.S. House of Representatives on War with Mexico (1848)
Appendix E: Moral and Philosophical Context
- From William Paley, The Duty of Submission to Civil Government Explained (1822)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Politics (1844)