A Plea for Captain John Brown
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
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Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book A Plea for Captain John Brown written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book 'A Plea for Captain John Brown' was written by famous American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian - Henry David Thoreau. It is an essay which is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown’s execution on December 2, 1859. It was first published in the year 1859.