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What was the original title of Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience?
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Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
The original title of Henry David Thoreau’s famous essay, now widely known as "Civil Disobedience," was "Resistance to Civil Government."12
It was first published under this original title in May 1849 in Aesthetic Papers, a journal of Transcendentalist writings. The essay was later republished as "Civil Disobedience" in 1866, six years after Thoreau's death, as part of the collection A Yankee in Canada.12