List Thoreau's other's visitors? Does he have a "doubl meaning" in mentioning these people?

Thoreau is criticizing the patriarchal structure of nineteenth-century New England society in this Chapter. The guests who make him happy and to whom he give a voice are those who viewpoints were excluded from public life ­ a "halfwit," a Catholic immigrant, a runaway slave, women, and children. Thoreau's writing, like his actions in refusing to pay taxes which would support slavery (which would become the essay "Civil Disobedience"), were deliberately subversive ­ a means of revealing the fallacy of conventions accepted as natural and right in his world.