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3. Henry David Thorough was thrown in
for refusing to pay
in protest of the war.

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July 1846, the naturalist, slavery abolitionist, and writer Henry David Thoreau had been resisting the payment of poll taxes that helped fund the Mexican-American War for six years. He was arrested for refusing to pay and spent a night in jail.

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