Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave / by Virginia Hamilton.
1988
CMC E450.B93 H36 1988 (Mapit)
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Title
Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave / by Virginia Hamilton.
ISBN
0394881850
0394981855 (lib. bdg.)
0394981855 (lib. bdg.)
Publication Details
New York : A.A. Knopf, c1988.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 193 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
CMC E450.B93 H36 1988
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.6/6/0924 B 92
Summary
A biography of the 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.
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Bibliography: p. 187-189.
Awards
Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, 1988.
Jane Addams Award, 1989.
Jane Addams Award, 1989.
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