Thoreau and Lincoln at the Crossroads of the Civil War

Abstract This essay examines how the seeming triumph of slavery in the decade before the Civil War forced Henry David Thoreau to abandon the vision of self-determination he laid out in “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849) and Walden (1854).

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The New England Quarterly
Published
2025-03-01
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https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_01058
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Thoreau and American Literature
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Thoreau and Lincoln at the Crossroads of the Civil War

Stephen Gallagher
The New England Quarterly
Thoreau and American Literature
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Thoreau and Lincoln at the Crossroads of the Civil War

Stephen Gallagher
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Abstract This essay examines how the seeming triumph of slavery in the decade before the Civil War forced Henry David Thoreau to abandon the vision of self-determination he laid out in “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849) and Walden (1854).

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