Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave /
by Virginia Hamilton.
- New York : A.A. Knopf, c1988.
- xiii, 193 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 187-189.
Children's Catalog (Wilson) Junior High School Library Catalog (Wilson) ALA Notable Books
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.
Fugitive slaves--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States Slavery--Anti-slavery movements--Juvenile literature.--United States Fugitive slaves. Slavery. Afro-Americans--Biography. Slavery--Biography.--United States Blacks--Biography.