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Resistance to Civil Government, also called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.
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"Resistance to Civil Government" (often titled "Civil Disobedience") was neither the first nor the last of Thoreau's writings on social and political reform.
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The lecture was published under the title "Resistance to Civil Government" in Elizabeth Peabody's Aesthetic Papers, in May 1849. It was included (as "Civil Disobedience") in Thoreau's A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers , published in Boston in 1866 by Ticknor and Fields, and reprinted many times.
The text was published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government. The major issue being debated in the United States during Thoreau's life was slavery, and it plays a prominent part in Thoreau's famous essay.
SYNOPSIS. Upon being jailed for refusing to pay his poll tax —a stance taken to register his protest of the government’s support of slavery and the Mexican War — Henry David Thoreau urges Americans to peacefully protest misguided and immoral government policies through various forms of civil disobedience. Events in History at the Time of the Essay.
Henry David Thoreau. Study Guide. Full Text. Full Work Summary. Previous. Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience espouses the need to prioritize one's conscience over the dictates of laws. It criticizes American social institutions and policies, most prominently slavery and the Mexican-American War.
Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) Henry David Thoreau; Edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum, Brown University, Rhode Island; Book: Thoreau: Political Writings; Online publication: 05 June 2012; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139170857.004
