"The Last Days of John Brown" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau, written in 1860, that praised the executed abolitionist militia leader John Brown.
He read it at the July 4, 1860, memorial service held at Brown's home in North Elba.
It was first published in The Liberator of July 27, 1860.
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