num_pages: 208
description: Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton's powerful true account of the sensational trial of a fugitive slave.The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston. But according to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway can be captured in any free state, and Anthony is soon imprisoned. The antislavery forces in Massachusetts are outraged, but the federal government backs the Fugitive Slave Act, sparking riots in Boston and fueling the Abolitionist movement.Written with all the novelistic skill that has won her every major award in children's literature, Virginia Hamilton's important work of nonfiction puts young readers into the mind of Burns himself.
language: English
title: Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
titlecomplete: Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
genres: Historical, History, Childrens, African American, Biography Memoir, Race, Civil War, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 126
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author Honor
publisher: Laurel Leaf