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 "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail"): The play is based on the early life of the title character, Henry David Thoreau, leading up to his night spent in a jail in Concord, Massachusetts.
Relevant evidence: No