Slavery In Massachusetts by Henry David Thoreau
An Address Delivered at the Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Framingham, October 24, 1854
A fiery denunciation of Massachusetts’s political and moral complicity in slavery, arguing that state authorities and clergy betrayed justice by enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law—most notably in the rendition of Anthony Burns. The essay condemns legislators, judges, and ministers who upheld slavery through legalistic compromises, praises direct resistance and civil disobedience by abolitionists, and calls for uncompromising moral action to oppose an unjust system.
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