Anthony Burns
Subtitle: the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave
By: by Virginia Hamilton
Edition: 1st Sprinter ed
Publisher: Random House Sprinters; A.A. Knopf
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Burns, Anthony, -- 1834-1862 -- Juvenile literature; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Antislavery movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature; African Americans -- 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: Reprint.  Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, c1988

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189)