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The imperfect revolution : Anthony Burns and the landscape of race in antebellum America
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- Creator
- Gordon S. Barker
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xix, 169 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781606350690, 1606350692
- OCLC
- ocn624042299
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-155) and index.
- Prologue : remembering Anthony Burns -- Perceiving the North Star -- The elusive North Star over the cradle of liberty -- The background to the spectacle -- The meaning of the spectacle : "no more tumults" and the Black Bostonian response -- A call to action in Virginia -- Anthony Burns's St. Catharines : safety under the "lion's paw" -- Epilogue : Anthony Burns, past and present
Subjects
- Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862.
- Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- United States.
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography.
- Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
- Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Massachusetts.
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century.
- United States -- Race relations.