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Henry David Thoreau
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Fiction
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2012
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Duke Classics
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English
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Thoreau wrote *Civil Disobedience* in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed b