Hamilton, Virginia.

Anthony Burns : the defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave / by Virginia Hamilton. - New York : A.A. Knopf, c1988. - xiii, 193 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 187-189.

A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.

ISBN: 0394881850 0394981855 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN: 87038063 /AC

Subjects--Personal Names:
Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862 --Juvenile literature.
Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fugitive slaves--Biography--Juvenile literature.--United States
Slavery--Anti-slavery movements--Juvenile literature.--United States
Fugitive slaves.
Slavery.
Afro-Americans--Biography.

LC Class. No.: E450.B93 / H36 1988

Dewey Class. No.: 973.6/6/0924 B 92