Anthony Burns
Subtitle: the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
By: by Virginia Hamilton.
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Burns, Anthony, -- 1834-1862 -- Juvenile literature; Fugitive slaves -- Juvenile literature; Slavery -- Juvenile literature; African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: j-150,637

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 187-189.