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About Anthony Burns
Anthony Burns was an African-American man who escaped from slavery in Virginia in 1854. His capture and trial in Boston, and transport back to Virginia, generated wide-scale public outrage in the North and increased support for abolition.
Everything about Anthony Burns →- Occupation
- preacher, abolitionist, slave
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 31, 1834
- Died
- July 27, 1862