Summary entry excerpted from Encyclopedia of American History (edited by Richard B. Morris, copyright © 1953 by Harper & Row, Inc.; reprinted by permission of the publisher): [P]laced fugitive slave cases under exclusive Federal ...
The “unforgettable” novel from the Newbery Medal–winning author tells the true story of a runaway slave whose capture and trial set off abolitionist riots (Kirkus Reviews).
An uninformed but curious farmer and a truth-seeking newspaper reporter attend a rally to free the captured slave Anthony Burns in Boston in 1854.
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.
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