greykit.essays — #slavery
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1865-03-04
[american-civic]
Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln's somber second inaugural, weighing the war as divine judgment on slavery — "With malice toward none, with charity for all.
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1854
[american-civic]
Slavery in Massachusetts
Thoreau's furious response to the Fugitive Slave Law and Massachusetts's complicity in returning a man to bondage.
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1849
[american-civic]
Civil Disobedience
Thoreau's argument that the individual must not lend himself to the injustice he condemns — the founding text of civil disobedience.
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1845
[american-civic]
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Douglass's account of his life in slavery and his escape to freedom — the most influential of the American slave narratives.