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

• Von Frank, Albert J.

• Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
• Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
• Boston, (Mass.) -- Race relations.

• Harvard University Press,

• 0674908503 (pbk.)

• Originally published: 1998.
• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 377-395.

• Nativism and slavery the northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850s
• road to disunion Secessionists at bay 1776 1854
• Race in North America origin and evolution of a worldview
• In hope of liberty culture community and protest among northern free blacks 1700 1860
• Witness for freedom African American voices on race slavery and emancipation
• Slavery in the American South
• Society and culture in the slave South
• Slavery in American society
• dividing and reuniting of America 1848 1877
• American slavery 1619 1877
• History a very short introduction
• Democracy in France since 1870
• Third Republic in France 1870 1940 conflicts and continuities
• rise of the Nazis
• Weimar and the rise of Hitler
• Imagined communities reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
• Plague population and the English economy 1348 1530