The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston
- ISBN-10
- 0674039548
- ISBN-13
- 9780674039544
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 409
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Albert J. Von Frank
Description
Traces the events revolving around the trial of an escaped slave who was arrested and returned to Virginia under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
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