Burns was a 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 de

Published in 1854, this is an account of the 1854 Boston slave riot and the trial of Anthony Burns who was captured as a fugitive slave, which spawned the riot.

Burns was a 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 de