Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave /

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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamilton, Virginia, 1934-2002.
Corporate Author: Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf, [1988]
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.

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Call Number: E450.B93
Status: Available

Children's Nonfiction

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Call Number: 973.7115092 .H221 1988
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