Slavery in Massachusetts is an 1854 essay by Henry David Thoreau based on a speech he gave at an anti-slavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1854, after the re-enslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns. See also Civil Disobedience by Thoreau On-line sources Slavery in Massachusetts at Wikisource Slavery in Massachusetts at The Picket Line Slavery in Massachusetts at eserver.org (annotated) Book sources My Thoughts are Murder to the State by Henry David Thoreau () The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform () Collected Essays and Poems by Henry David Thoreau () External links Thoreau’s Stance on Abolition Essays by Henry David Thoreau 1854 essays African-American history of Massachusetts