Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emersonus Boston by Albert J. Von Frank

Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emersonus Boston

Albert J. Von Frank

431 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional medium-paced
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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 ...

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