Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

Virginia Hamilton

208 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction childrens historical young adult challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton's powerful true account of the sensational trial of a fugitive slave.The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston. But according to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway...

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