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Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel Leaf Books)
Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton's powerful true account of the sensational trial of a fugitive slave.
The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston. But according to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway can be captured in any free state, and Anthony is soon imprisoned. The antislavery forces in Massachusetts are outraged, but th...more
The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston. But according to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway can be captured in any free state, and Anthony is soon imprisoned. The antislavery forces in Massachusetts are outraged, but th...more
Mass Market Paperback, 208 pages
Published
January 4th 1993
by Laurel Leaf
(first published 1988)
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This book is a good story for people who enjoy reading historical fiction. In this book I was surprised when the soldiers attacked the crowed of people. This happened when Anthony Burns was being taken to the ship because he was still a slave. The people were mad at the soldiers because of this so they started booing and hissing at them.
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I thought it was a triumphant book of epic proportions; it takes a great deal of patients though not an easy read for the most part it was very interesting.
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So...the only things I remember about this book are that he escaped from slavery, got recaptured and then escaped again as a free man. Yay! He's freed. But then in the epilogue it says he dies when he's like 30 or something. Boo :(
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This book was alright. It wasn't a fast reader, and was pretty confusing, but it had a good message.
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