Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave

Author(s)

• Hamilton, Virginia

Bibliographic Information

Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave

by Virginia Hamilton

A.A. Knopf, c1988

• lib. bdg.

Note

Bibliography: p. 187-189

Includes index

Summary: 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

Details

• NCID: BA21020509
• ISBN:
  • 0394881850
  • 0394981855
• LCCN: 87038063
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 193 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E450.B93
  • DC19 : 973.6/6/0924
  • DC19 : B
  • DC19 : 92
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862 -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements -- Juvenile literature
  • JVSH : Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862
  • JVSH : Fugitive slaves
  • JVSH : Slavery
  • JVSH : Afro-Americans -- Biography