Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave / by Virginia Hamilton.

Author: Hamilton, Virginia, 1934-2002.

Imprint:New York : A.A. Knopf, c1988.

Descriptionxiii, 193 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 187-189.

Note: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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