Hamilton, Virginia.

Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave / by Virginia Hamilton. - New York : Scholastic, 1997,c1988. - xiii, 193 p. ; 18 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862.


Slaves--Biography.--United States
Slavery--United States.
African Americans--Biography.

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