A Plea for Captain John Brown, Read to the Citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday Evening, October Thirtieth, Eighteen Fifty-Nine

32 pp. A letterpress reissue of the speech given in Concord, and later in Boston, which first appeared in print in Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860. Thoreau wrote several short pieces on slavery, abolition, and John Brown, though he is best known for Walden.