Author: VON FRANK ALBERT J.
Title: Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0674039548. Fine / Fine. Green hardboards with black spine, DJ unclipped, near fine condition. 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 is the story of Burns's trial and of how, arising in abolitionist Boston just as the incendiary Kansas-Nebraska Act took effect, it revolutionized the moral and political climate in Massachusetts and sent shock waves through the nation. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 409 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0674039548 Slavery, Boston. Culture History Social Sciences Black History United States African American


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