Anthony Burns
Subtitle: the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
By: by Virginia Hamilton.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
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
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; 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: Bibliography: p. 187-189.
Includes index.