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The trials of Anthony Burns : freedom and slavery in Emerson's Boston / Albert J. Von Frank.
- Title
- The trials of Anthony Burns : freedom and slavery in Emerson's Boston / Albert J. Von Frank.
- Author
- Von Frank, Albert J.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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- Description
- xix, 409 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Traces the events revolving around the trial of an escaped slave who was arrested and returned to Virginia under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-395) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Thursday, May 25, 1854 -- Grapping -- Friday, May 26 -- Jerry rescue -- Martin stowell -- Strategies -- Black Boston -- Eclipse -- Faneuil Hall -- Battle at the court house door -- Aftermath -- For sale -- Anthony Burns -- Saturday, May 27 -- Autopsy -- Law -- extemporized scripture -- Curtii -- Lewis hayden -- Not for sale -- Monday, May 29 -- Monday session -- Claimant rests -- Defense opens -- Richard Hildreth -- Money -- Tuesday, May 30 -- treason -- Politics and force -- Dna's argument -- Thomas' argument -- Conspiracy -- "Bad Friday": June 2 -- Cortége -- Going home -- republicans -- Carried back -- know-nothings -- Catholics and anti-catholics -- Walt whitman -- Emerson's pulpit (Whitsunday) -- If we feel not -- Fourth of July -- Letters from hell -- Trials -- Endings -- Emersonian epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0674039548 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^97041957^
- OCLC
- 37721476
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library