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.
6.3. 5-9.
0679839976 (pbk.)
Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862.
Slaves--Biography.--United States Slavery--United States. African Americans--Biography.