Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
by Hamilton, Virginia
Boston Globe/Horn Book Award/HonorsCoretta Scott King Award/HonorsJane Addams Book Award Finalist/Winner BBiographies/AutobiographiesU.S.Black People
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AR Book Level
5.8
AR Points
7
Word Count
41,841
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
355 EN
About this book
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.