Question: Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum, is an essay style letter-to-the-editor written by Henry David Thoreau, an essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian, of which nationality? 
Sentence (from "Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum"): Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum is an essay style letter-to-the-editor written by Henry David Thoreau and published in "The Liberator" in 1845 that praised the abolitionist lecturer "Wendell Phillips".
Relevant evidence: Yes