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Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

Author: Hamilton, Virginia

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.8
Points 7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 41841
Points per Word 0.000167
Page Count 208
Points per Page 0.033654

Description

This book is 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.