Thoreau, Henry David
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID thor o, th ro , 1817 62, American author and naturalist, b. Concord, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1837...conscientious refusal to pay a poll tax that supported the Mexican War, which to Thoreau represented an effort to extend slavery...