Anthony Burns

the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave

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193 pages

English language

Published April 20, 1988 by A.A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-394-88185-0
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OCLC Number:
973165526

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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

  • Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862 -- Juvenile literature
  • Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862
  • Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
  • Antislavery movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature
  • Fugitive slaves
  • Slavery
  • African Americans -- Biography