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| Named Person: | Anthony Burns; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Anthony (Sklave) Burns |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Albert J Von Frank |
| ISBN: | 0674039548 9780674039544 |
| OCLC Number: | 37721476 |
| Description: | xix, 409 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Thursday, May 25, 1854 -- Grapping -- Friday, May 26 -- Jerry rescue -- Martin stowell -- Strategies -- Black Boston -- Eclipse -- Faneuil Hall -- Battle at the court house door -- Aftermath -- For sale -- Anthony Burns -- Saturday, May 27 -- Autopsy -- Law -- extemporized scripture -- Curtii -- Lewis hayden -- Not for sale -- Monday, May 29 -- Monday session -- Claimant rests -- Defense opens -- Richard Hildreth -- Money -- Tuesday, May 30 -- treason -- Politics and force -- Dna's argument -- Thomas' argument -- Conspiracy -- "Bad Friday": June 2 -- Cortége -- Going home -- republicans -- Carried back -- know-nothings -- Catholics and anti-catholics -- Walt whitman -- Emerson's pulpit (Whitsunday) -- If we feel not -- Fourth of July -- Letters from hell -- Trials -- Endings -- Emersonian epilogue. |
| Responsibility: | Albert J. Von Frank. |
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Abstract:
Traces the events revolving around the trial of an escaped slave who was arrested and returned to Virginia under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
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