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Meet the Author of Walden A Thoreau Life
The Mini Page explores Henry David Thoreau a mid-1800s writer who heard a different drummer His life in Concord Massachusetts shows family tuberculosis slavery abolition Underground Railroad Harvard College and a brother’s death that shaped his work He quit teaching after two weeks and started a school with his brother John ending when his brother died of tetanus Thoreau survived a severe illness and recovered over a year to continue writing
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