Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emersonus Boston

by Albert J. von Frank

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674908503
• ISBN13: 9780674908505
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"