The trials of Anthony Burns : freedom and slavery in Emerson's Boston /

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Author / Creator:	Von Frank, Albert J.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Description:	xix, 409 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Burns, Anthony, -- 1834-1862 -- Trials, litigation, etc. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882. Burns, Anthony, -- 1834-1862. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882. Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Massachusetts -- Boston. Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- Boston. Antislavery movements. Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. Race relations. Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations. Massachusetts -- Boston. Trials, litigation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2946000

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ISBN:	0674039548 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Thursday, May 25, 1854 Grappling
Friday, May 26 The Jerry Rescue Martin Stowell Strategies Black Boston Eclipse Faneuil Hall
The Battle at the Court House Door Aftermath For Sale Anthony Burns Saturday, May 27
Autopsy Law Extemporized Scripture
The Curtii Lewis Hayden Not for Sale Monday, May 29
Monday Session Claimant Rests
The Defense Opens Richard Hildreth Money Tuesday, May 30
Treason Politics and Force Dana's Argument Thomas' Argument
Conspiracy Bad Friday : June 2
The Cortege 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 An Emersonian
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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