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A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Plea for Captain John Brown about?
"A Plea for Captain John Brown" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It 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 Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860.
Who reads A Plea for Captain John Brown?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- Publisher
- OneMoreLibrary.com
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, American Studies, Humanities
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