Question

What book and author was inspired by the writers experience of being arrested when he refused to pay a $1 poll tax

Answer 1

Henry David Thoreau and during his time at Walden, Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax. He withheld the tax to protest the existence of slavery and what he saw as an imperialistic war with Mexico. Released after a relative paid the tax, he wrote “Civil DisobedienceExternal” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”)