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John Greenleaf Whittier publishes Justice and Expediency, in which he calls for the abolition of slavery
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Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his first collection, Essays, including"Self-Reliance"and"The Over-Soul"
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Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems
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Emily Dickinson begins to copy her poems into bound booklets
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Courtship of Miles Standish
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England's Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a Vindication of the Rights of woman