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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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The Rendition of Anthony Burns
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.
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Anthony Burns was on trial as a fugitive slave.
Anthony Burns
Author: Charles Emery Stevens
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The Trials of Anthony Burns
Author: Albert J. Von Frank
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674039544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674039544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.
Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns
Author: Anthony Burns
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Boston Riots
Author: Jack Tager
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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.
The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America
Author: Robert H. Churchill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.
Fugitive Slave on Trial
Author: Earl M. Maltz
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Chronicles the case of a runaway slave who was tracked to Boston by his owner. Compellingly details the struggle over his fate and how that became a focal point for national controversy. Reveals how the case became one of the most dramatic and widely publicized events in the long-running conflict over the issue of fugitive slaves.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Chronicles the case of a runaway slave who was tracked to Boston by his owner. Compellingly details the struggle over his fate and how that became a focal point for national controversy. Reveals how the case became one of the most dramatic and widely publicized events in the long-running conflict over the issue of fugitive slaves.
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732648621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732648621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Trial of Theodore Parker
Author: Theodore Parker
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Publisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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