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Author:
Barker, Gordon S., 1952-
Title:
The imperfect revolution : Anthony Burns and the landscape of race in antebellum America / Gordon S. Barker.
Publisher:
Kent State University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
xix, 169 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Burns, Anthony,--1834-1862.
Burns, Anthony,--1834-1862--Trials, litigation, etc.
Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography.
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--Massachusetts.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements--Boston--Boston--History--19th century.
United States.--Fugitive slave law (1850)
United States--Race relations.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue : remembering Anthony Burns -- Perceiving the North Star -- The elusive North Star over the cradle of liberty -- The background to the spectacle -- The meaning of the spectacle : "no more tumults" and the Black Bostonian response -- A call to action in Virginia -- Anthony Burns's St. Catharines : safety under the "lion's paw" -- Epilogue : Anthony Burns, past and present.
Series:
American abolitionism and antislavery.
ISBN:
1606350692 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781606350690 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)624042299
LCCN:
2010020012
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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