A collection of essays by Henry D. Thoreau, including essays about an American abolitionist John Brown:

• A Plea for Captain John Brown »
  Thoreau's eloquent defense of the radical abolitionist, who with twenty-one other men seized the federal armory at Harper's Ferry. (14 pages)
  
  
• After the Death of John Brown »
  Speech given by Thoreau himself on 2 December 1859 at the time of John Brown's execution. (2 pages)
  
  
• Aulus Persius Flaccus »
  Thoreau's essay about Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. (4 pages)
  
  
• Dark Ages »
  Short historical essay that was first published in The Dial 1843. (2 pages)
  
  
• Herald of Freedom »
  An essay that praises Herald of Freedom - the journal of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and its editor, Nathaniel P. Rogers. (6 pages)
  
  
• Night and Moonlight »
  An essay concerned with the observations of Thoreau as a naturalist. (5 pages)
  
  
• Paradise to be Regained »
  An essay that takes the form of a review of John Adolphus Etzlers book The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery. (18 pages)
  
  
• Reform and the Reformers »
  An essay that reflects Thoreau's frustration with the multitude of reformers — prohibitionists, utopian communists, free love advocates, religious revivalists... (9 pages)
  
  
• Sir Walter Raleigh »
  An essay in which Thoreau praises Sir Walter Raleigh as a flawed but heroic figure, but who failed to use his heroic character to heroic ends. (25 pages)
  
  
• The Highland Light »
  This is one of Thoreau's Cape Cod essays. The Highland Light is a lighthouse located in Truro, Massachusetts. (12 pages)
  
  
• The Landlord »
  Thoreau's essay published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1843). (5 pages)
  
  
• The Last Days of John Brown »
  An essay that praised the executed abolitionist militia leader John Brown (written in 1860). (5 pages)
  
  
• The Service »
  An essay partly on the subject of non-resistance and pacifist writers in which Thoreau warns that pacifism can be a temptation to passivity. (8 pages)
  
  
• Thomas Carlyle and His Works »
  An essay in which Thoreau praises the writings of Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian. (20 pages)
  
  
• Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum »
  A letter to the editor published in The Liberator in 1845 that praised the abolitionist lecturer Wendell Phillips. (2 pages)