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Author Hamilton, Virginia.

Title Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave / by Virginia Hamilton.

Publication Info. New York : A.A. Knopf, [1988]
©1988

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 973.6 HAM    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Biographies  J B BURNS c.2  Check Shelf
Description xiii, 193 pages ; 22 cm
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 187-189.
Summary A biography of the 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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.8 7.0 355.
Subject Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862 -- Juvenile literature.
Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Fugitive slaves.
Slavery.
African Americans -- Biography.
ISBN 0394881850
0394981855 library binding
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