Anthony Burns the Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
- List Price: $7.99
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
- Publish date: 01/01/1993
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The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston. But his freedom is short-lived. 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 the federal government backs the Fugitive Slave Act, sparking riots in Boston and fueling the Abolitionist movement throughout the northeast.
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Written with all the novelistic skill that has won her every major award in children's literature, Virginia Hamilton's important work of nonfiction puts young readers into the mind of Burns himself -- as a child on a plantation, as a slave desperate for freedom, and as a prisoner struggling to maintain his faith in humanity.
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