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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Burns was a 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.
Author: Anthony Burns
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Author: Createspace Independent Pub
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781480287822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Published in 1854, this is an account of the 1854 Boston slave riot and the trial of Anthony Burns who was captured as a fugitive slave, which spawned the riot.
Author: Anthony Burns
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Charles Emery Stevens
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: William Ingersoll Bowditch
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Anthony Burns was on trial as a fugitive slave.
Author: Albert J. Von Frank
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674039544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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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 the nation. In a searching cultural analysis, Albert J. von Frank draws us into the drama and the consequences of the case. He introduces the individuals who contended over the fate of the barely literate twenty-year-old runaway slave--figures as famous as Richard Henry Dana Jr., the defense attorney, as colorful as Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Bronson Alcott, who led a mob against the courthouse where Burns was held, and as intriguing as Moncure Conway, the Virginia-born abolitionist who spied on Burns's master. The story is one of desperate acts, even murder--a special deputy slain at the courthouse door--but it is also steeped in ideas. Von Frank links the deeds and rhetoric surrounding the Burns case to New England Transcendentalism, principally that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His book is thus also a study of how ideas relate to social change, exemplified in the art and expression of Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Theodore Parker, Bronson Alcott, Walt Whitman, and others. Situated at a politically critical moment--with the Whig party collapsing and the Republican arising, with provocations and ever hotter rhetoric intensifying regional tensions--the case of Anthony Burns appears here as the most important fugitive slave case in American history. A stirring work of intellectual and cultural history, this book shows how the Burns affair brought slavery home to the people of Boston and brought the nation that much closer to the Civil War.
Author: Jack Tager
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The fascinating story of Boston's violent past is told for the first time in this history of the city's riots, from the food shortage uprisings in the 18th century to the anti-busing riots of the 20th century.
Author: Robert H. Churchill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.
Author: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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