Abolitionism in "Economy"

   Henry David Thoreau was well-known for many things, from being a transcendentalist, the main philosophy of Walden, to a follower of civil disobedience  But I would like to discuss Thoreau as a abolitionist and that idea in Economy. As an abolitionist, Thoreau mainly focused on fighting the Fugitive Slave Law in lectures and pushing "the writings of Wendell Phillips." ("Henry David Thoreau")  Thoreau's passion for abolitionism clearly shows in "Economy." Now, in Walden, Thoreau boldly addresses the issue of slavery. For Thoreau's time , his writings on abolitionism were quite radical. In "Economy," Thoreau discusses abolitionism in a very frank manner, calling "Negro Slavery" "gross" and "frivolous" and a "foreign form of servitude." This means that while Thoreau didn't disclaim all types of slavery, he did disclose those types based on racism. Thus he wanted the immediate emancipation of African American slaves. One quote that really exemplifies the feelings of Thoreau about abolitionism is "What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate." The quote shows that Thoreau believes that a slave's personal opinion of  himself  should be more important than society's stereotypical view of slavery. So, the slave should not be bound by slavery but free to form his opinion of himse