Anthony Burns Quotes

“Their message was clear: Anthony Burns was cared for.”
― Virginia Hamilton, Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

“When the fugitive Thomas Sims was captured and returned to slavery in 1851, five hundred business and professional men of Boston volunteered as special constables to aid Marshal Freeman in removing the prisoner from the city. But the public sentiment had changed so greatly by the year 1854 that now no decent man would help the Marshal serve up another slave.”
― Virginia Hamilton, Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

“Overnight, without his ever knowing it, Anthony Burns became a symbol of freedom.”
― Virginia Hamilton, Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave