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

By Albert J. von Frank

Book Overview

In 1854 an escaped Virginia slave, Anthony Burns, was captured and brought to trial in Boston and Northerners were unable to ignore the unpleasantness of slavery anymore. This is the story of Burns' trial and of how, arising in abolitionist Boston just as the Kansas-Nebraska Act took effect, it revolutionized the moral and political climate in Massachusettes and sent waves through the nation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674039548
• ISBN13: 9780674039544
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 409 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"