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A carregar... Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slavepor Virginia Hamilton
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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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This was not my favorite book I have read. In this book I thought it would have a little more action and less drama in the court. The only real action in the book was when a mob was attacking the prison to free Anthony. It surprised me at the end when the Marshal and the deputy bought Anthony a new suit before they sent him off. Also the anti-slavery people tried to buy Anthony but it was Sunday so they couldn’t buy him. In the end, the ( )