 | Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts Subjects: Slavery -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- History; Slaves -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- Social conditions; Concord (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Thoreau Henry David 1817–1862. Walden; Charting the rise and fall of a community of former slaves struggling to survive on the fringes of Concord, Massachusetts, Black Walden reveals the role that slavery and its aftermath played in forming Thoreau's beloved Walden landscape. Elise Lemire is the author of "Miscegenation": Making Race in America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is Professor of Literature at Purchase College, State University of New York. |
