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Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
Anthony Burns The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
Author: Virginia Hamilton
"In 1854, Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old black man, was put on trial in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Retelling the events of the trial, which polarized the city, Hamilton shows the kind of political issue which brought the nation to fever pitch in the decade before the Civil War. Hamilton's biography is actually a 'docudrama' which...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394981857
ISBN-10: 0394981855
Publication Date: 6/12/1988
Pages: 193
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Book Type: Hardcover
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