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Civil Disobedience discusses Thoreau's arguments for civil disobedience: the deliberate violation of laws for reasons of conscience. Thoreau's concept is dependant on the belief that no law should command blind obedience and this non-cooperation with unjust laws is both morally correct and socially beneficial. The Liberator was a leading voice for abolitionism in the nineteenth century. Abolitionism needed the immediate emancipation of slaves, based on the principle that individuals own their bodies, labor, and the fruits with their labor. Abolitionists vigorously opposed gradualists, who needed phasing out slavery over a long period of time; in addition they opposed colonizationists, who wanted to relocate former slaves in another country.
