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Henry David Thoreau's Essay "The Last Days of John Brown"

https://americanliterature.com/author/henry-david-thoreau/essay/the-last-days-of-john-brown

The full-text of Thoreau's 1860 essay on the hanging of John Brown, who he admired and praises throughout the essay.

Melville Electronic Library

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Berkshire County Historical Society at Herman Melville's Arrowhead

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