10 Facts about Thoreau
1. Born on July 12, 1817
2. Died on May 6, 1862
3. Born in Concord, Massachusetts
4. Graduated from Harvard
5. Helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad and spoke out against the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
6. Thoreau was jailed briefly in 1846 for refusing to pay a poll tax during the Mexican War
7. He took over his father's pencil factory after his father's death in 1859
8. Lived in Ralph Waldo Emerson's home and worked briefly on Staten Island as a tutor in 1843
9. Contributed nature essays and poems to the transcendentalist journal The Dial
10. Discussed this act of nonviolent resistance in the essay 'Civil Disobedience.'
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