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J. Frank Dobie and Henry David Thoreau

Both engaged in civil disobedience

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Apr 17, 2026
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New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau went to jail in the summer of 1846 for refusing to pay a $1.50 poll tax. Ninety years later, in a part of the United States Thoreau knew about but never saw, …

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