The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston

by Albert J. von Frank

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674039548
• ISBN13: 9780674039544
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 409 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"