[PDF.37mn] The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston

The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston

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 | #2178261 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1999-02-15 |  1999-03-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.11 x6.13l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 431 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Karol Kucinski|great book|4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant historical account|By Randy A. Credico|I enjoyed this book from beginning to end. This is a monumental piece of writing and extremely important for anyone interested in American history particularly relating to slavery and abolt|.com |Anthony Burns was a slave in Virginia who escaped by ship to Boston in 1854. His owner demanded his return to slavery under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and his arrest and eventual return to Virginia created a sensation throughout the nation. Albert J.

Before 1854, most Northerners managed to ignore the distant unpleasantness of slavery. But that year an escaped Virginia slave, Anthony Burns, was captured and brought to trial in Boston--and never again could Northerners look the other way. This is the story of Burns's trial and of how, arising in abolitionist Boston just as the incendiary Kansas-Nebraska Act took effect, it revolutionized the moral and political climate in Massachusetts and sent shock waves through...

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