... institutions and refused to pay taxes that supported this government. His life through the way he lived and his writings has had a great effect on our lives today. Henry David Thoreau wrote five essays and gave many lectures against slavery. His anti-slavery views were rare, especially from a white ... placed upon his fellow townsmen and citizens that "ignored their morals- by allowing slavery to continue. In "Slavery in Massachusetts- he tells of a town meeting he attended in which the topic was meant to be slavery. He talks of how in the courthouse men were holding a man prisoner and ...

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... he is describing seems to be entirely different than how many people would portray a pond, it is personified and it has a nature of its own. All our concord waters have two colors at least, one when viewed and another, more proper, close at hand. The first depends more on light, and follows the sky ... of a dark slate color. The sea, however, is said to be blue on day and green another without any perceptible change in atmosphere. I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost green as grass. Some consider blue "to be the color of pure ...

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• Grade Level: High School