The Trials Of Anthony Burns
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The Trials Of Anthony Burns
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Author : Albert J. Von Frank
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Trials Of Anthony Burns written by Albert J. Von Frank and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 shock waves through the nation. In a searching cultural analysis, Albert J. von Frank draws us into the drama and the consequences of the case. He introduces the individuals who contended over the fate of the barely literate twenty-year-old runaway slave--figures as famous as Richard Henry Dana Jr., the defense attorney, as colorful as Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Bronson Alcott, who led a mob against the courthouse where Burns was held, and as intriguing as Moncure Conway, the Virginia-born abolitionist who spied on Burns's master. The story is one of desperate acts, even murder--a special deputy slain at the courthouse door--but it is also steeped in ideas. Von Frank links the deeds and rhetoric surrounding the Burns case to New England Transcendentalism, principally that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His book is thus also a study of how ideas relate to social change, exemplified in the art and expression of Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Theodore Parker, Bronson Alcott, Walt Whitman, and others. Situated at a politically critical moment--with the Whig party collapsing and the Republican arising, with provocations and ever hotter rhetoric intensifying regional tensions--the case of Anthony Burns appears here as the most important fugitive slave case in American history. A stirring work of intellectual and cultural history, this book shows how the Burns affair brought slavery home to the people of Boston and brought the nation that much closer to the Civil War.
Boston Slave Riot And Trial Of Anthony Burns
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Author : Anthony Burns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
Boston Slave Riot And Trial Of Anthony Burns written by Anthony Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with Antislavery movements categories.
Trials Of Anthony Burns
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Author : Albert J. Von Frank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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The Rendition Of Anthony Burns
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Author : William Ingersoll Bowditch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
The Rendition Of Anthony Burns written by William Ingersoll Bowditch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with Antislavery movements categories.
Anthony Burns was on trial as a fugitive slave.
Fugitive Slave On Trial
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Author : Earl M. Maltz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Fugitive Slave On Trial written by Earl M. Maltz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Chronicles the case of a runaway slave who was tracked to Boston by his owner. Compellingly details the struggle over his fate and how that became a focal point for national controversy. Reveals how the case became one of the most dramatic and widely publicized events in the long-running conflict over the issue of fugitive slaves.
Anthony Burns
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Author : Charles Emery Stevens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
Anthony Burns written by Charles Emery Stevens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with African Americans categories.
Anthony Burns A History
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Author : Charles Emery Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-02-20
Anthony Burns A History written by Charles Emery Stevens and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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Boston Slave Riot And Trial Of Anthony Burns
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language : en
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Release Date : 1854
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Burns was a 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.
Anthony Burns
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Author : Virginia Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2011-02-15
Anthony Burns written by Virginia Hamilton and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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). Anthony Burns is a runaway slave who has just started to build a life for himself in Boston. Then his former owner comes to town to collect him. Anthony won’t go willingly, though, and people across the city step forward to make sure he’s not taken. Based on the true story of a man who stood up against the Fugitive Slave Law, Hamilton’s gripping account follows the battle in the streets and in the courts to keep Burns a citizen of Boston—a battle that is the prelude to the nation’s bloody Civil War.
The Underground Railroad And The Geography Of Violence In Antebellum America
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Author : Robert H. Churchill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-02
The Underground Railroad And The Geography Of Violence In Antebellum America written by Robert H. Churchill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-02 with History categories.
A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.