title: Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (Classic Reprint)
author: George Henry Moore
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  SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  # SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS
  
  
  ### Henry David Thoreau
  
  
  
  
  
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  I LATELY ATTENDED a meeting of the citizens of Concord, expecting,
  
  
  as one among many, to speak on the subject of slavery in
  
  
  Massachusetts; but I was surprised and disappointed to find that
  
  
  what had called my townsmen together was the destiny of Nebraska,
  
  
  and not of Massachusetts, and that what I had to say would be entirely
  
  
  out of order. I had thought that the house was on fire, and not the
  
  
  prairie; but though several of the citizens of Massachusetts are now
  
  
  in prison for attempting to rescue a slave from her own clutches,
  
  
  not one of the speakers at that meeting expressed regret for it, not
  
  
  one even referred to it. It was only the disposition of some wild
  
  
  lands a thousand miles off which appeared to concern them. The
  
  
  inhabitan