The Trials of Anthony Burns - Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston

history. A stirring work of intellectual and cultural history, this book shows how the Burns affair brought slavery home to the people of Boston and brought the nation that much closer to the Civil War.

About the author

Albert J. von Frank is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Washington State University.

Summary

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. This is the story of Burns’s trial and of how it revolutionized the moral and political climate in Massachusetts and sent shock waves through the nation.

Product details

• Authors: Albert J von Frank, Albert J. von Frank, Albert J. von Frank
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.1999
• EAN: 9780674908505
• ISBN: 978-0-674-90850-5
• Weight: 612 g
• Illustrations: 20 halftones (19 to run as "mock "insert, plus frontispiece
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Biography: historical, political and military, Slavery and abolition of slavery