28. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844).
From Newton/Emerson Collection, CFPL Concord Authors Collection.

ADDRESS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, 1844

This, Emerson's first powerful attack on slavery, was delivered at the request of Mary Merrick Brooks. Following initial delivery of the address, Emerson—now a recognized antislavery advocate—was asked several times to reread it at abolition gatherings.