Download or read book Black Walden written by Elise Lemire and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the rise and fall of a community of former slaves struggling to survive on the fringes of Concord, Massachusetts, Black Walden reveals the role that slavery and its aftermath played in forming Thoreau's beloved Walden landscape.