LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY
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His establishment of abolitionist literature
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His refusal to pay taxes to expand slavery
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His passionate sermons supporting abolition during the Second Great Awakening
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His expansion of the concept of Transcendentalism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thoreau established the tradition of nature writing later developed by the Americans John Burroughs and John Muir, and his pioneer study of the human uses of nature profoundly influenced such conservationists and regional planners as Benton MacKaye and Lewis Mumford.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thoreau was an abolitionist who helped runaway slaves and worked to repeal the fugitive slave law.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thoreau’s importance as a philosophical writer was little appreciated during his lifetime, but his two most noted works, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) and “Civil Disobedience” (1849), gradually developed a following, and by the latter half of the 20th century, had become classic texts in American thought.
Detailed explanation-4: -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American from New England who was an author, poet, and natural philosopher. Thoreau was a leading figure in the Transcendentalist movement which held, as one of its premises, that the human connection with nature is necessary for intellectual and moral stability.