Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America
by
Gordon S. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns
On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony Burns to the ship that would return him to his slaveholders in Virginia. Days earlier, handbills...