A Plea for Captain Brown- Henry David Thoreau

BACKGROUND:

Your final reading assignment for this semester is the essay called “A Plea for Captain Brown” by the American author Henry David Thoreau. It concerns the efforts of one man, John Brown, who, in an effort to arm the slaves and incite a rebellion, seized a federal armory in the small town of Harper’s Ferry, in what was then Virginia but is now West Virginia. Thoreau wrote this essay–actually, it was a speech that he gave in multiple towns across Massachusetts, in the brief period of time that Brown was incarcerated, but before he was publicly hanged by the state. Brown remains to this day one of the only people ever executed for treason in the United States.

Thoreau, as you’ll read, greatly admired the efforts of Brown, and took very seriously both the general anti-slavery fight against injustice, and the willingness of one individual to risk his life to intervene against slavery.

PROMPT:

For your final project, please respond to the following prompt. All of them concern Thoreau’s “A Plea for Captain John Brown” essay.

  1. Use Thoreau’s “A Plea for Captain Brown” and King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to assess how best to act against inequality and/or injustice in today’s society.
    • What can an individual take from John Brown’s effort, and Thoreau’s depiction of this, that would help us in deciding how best to act in the face of injustice? How does Brown’s effort relate to King’s four-step plan for “direct action” What is the role of violence in the struggle for justice?
    • If you choose this prompt, it will be very important to be very specific– in at least two ways.
      • You’ll need to be specific both in your references to modern-day challenges and in your proposals for ways to counter injustice by direct action (It’s not nearly specific enough to just suggest a “protest,” for example). This prompt allows you to make specific references to modern life in 2020, and to pressing challenges in the present day. As such, your response to this prompt can include reference to news stories, or other information to inform your thought process.

 

FORMAT:

  • Once you’ve finished the above prompts, your response can be produced and submitted in the following format:
    • as a paper of 3-5 double spaced pages (3 full pages of your own writing being an absolute minimum).

 

GUIDELINES:

  • In producing your final project, you’ll want to be doing a lot of textual referencing to specific moments, and some amount of quotation from the text you’re writing/speaking about.
    • When referencing or quoting the text, please be sure to refer to the page number of the moment you’re referring to.

If you are submitting a paper, please use parenthetical citations at the end of a sentence.

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