Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher, writer, naturalist, and political activist. He is best known for his book Walden, published in 1854, which recounts his two-year experiment living alone in a small cottage at Walden Pond two miles outside Concord, Massachusetts, and his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience written in 1849 shortly after his release from a Concord jail for non-payment of a poll tax.
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1817 - 1862Life of American philosopher and writer Henry David Thoreau.
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1849Henry David Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is published.
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1854Henry David Thoreau's Walden is published.
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1854Henry David Thoreau's Slavery in Massachussets is published.
