Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1994
ISSN
2160-2395
Publisher
Cornell University
Language
en-US
Abstract
In the early 1840s Henry David Thoreau stopped paying the Massachusetts poll tax. When pressed for payment in 1846, he invited arrest and went to jail. He had wanted to protest his state's complicity in the federal government's support of chattel slavery and its policies towards Native Americans. By the time he delivered his lecture on civil disobedience, in 1848, events had produced another cause. Thoreau also condemned this country's expansionist war against Mexico.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Radical Resisters
,
in
21
Cornell Law Forum
3
(1994).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2872
Comments
This article is from an address to the Pacific division of the American Philosophical Association on April 2, 1994.