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The State
Personified government in civil disobedience essay.
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First appearance: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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In Herald of Freedom: Referenced indirectly through the critique of the government's handling of the Princeton explosion and the slave's funeral. Later, in On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: Personified as a machine…
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- Herald of Freedom
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- Slavery in Massachusetts
- The Last Days of John Brown
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