Anthony Burns

The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books)

mass market paperback, 208 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1993 by Laurel Leaf.

ISBN:
978-0-679-83997-2
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A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts

6 editions

Subjects

  • Human & civil rights
  • Slavery
  • Children: Grades 4-6
  • Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • People & Places - United States - African-American
  • Juvenile literature
  • Fugitive slaves
  • Antislavery movements
  • Burns, Anthony
  • Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / People of Color
  • Biography & Autobiography - Art
  • United States
  • Anti-slavery movements
  • Biography