Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

by VirginiaHamilton (Author)

• New

  Mass Market Paperback
  1993

  $11.38

  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 centers on the often silent,
  mistreated, and humbled runaway slave. The insights Hamilton gives into the
  personal side of slavery are moving and unforgettable. --(starred) School
  Library Journal. Does exactly what good biography for children ought to
  do: makes them feel what it was like to be that person in those
  times. --(starred) Horn Book.