![]() ![]() The tax collector had ignored his tax evasion but acted when Henry publicly condemned the US invasion and occupation of Mexico.In July 1846, Thoreau was arrested for his tax delinquency. Thoreau had already stopped paying his taxes in protest against slavery. ![]() Thoreau and other northern critics of war viewed it as a plot by southerners to expand slavery into the Southwest. In 1846, the U.S declared war against Mexico. In 1845, he built a hut at Walden Pond on property owned by Emerson, he lived simply off the land, meditated and wrote about nature. Thoreau agreed with Emerson’s teaching that social reforms begins with the individual. The movement was led by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a writer and lecturer. Later, he joined Transcendentalism, a religious, philosophical and literary movement. ![]() Henry David Thoreau, graduated from Harvard in 1837 and worked for a short time as a schoolmaster before he began writing poetry. ![]()
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