Night in Concord jail
· Concord Jail, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International · file Thoreau was jailed overnight after refusing to pay his poll tax, an episode that became central to his argument for civil disobedience. The chronology dates the incarceration to July 23 or 24, 1846; exact day remains uncertain.
