Abolitionism

It's always struck with me that Susan Cheever had a strong reaction to John Brown in her account of the Transcendentalists.

I'm reading today that Wendell Philips came to Concord again to talk, against the protests of some.

In a way, I think about Henry living with all the Thoreau women. Sophia Thoreau was a big abolitionist. Helen Thoreau had a collection of abolitionist clippings from newspapers, the equivalent of today would be a bunch of bookmarks. Favorite links.

Emerson and Thoreau were on the right side of history, but there names come way down in the long article on abolitionism in Wikipedia. 

Good Lord Bird is a good TV show about John Brown. Season 3 in Dickinson is the Civil War. 

Bonus link:

Hiking can be dangerous. Woman found stuck in mud for 3 days.