{"id":670,"date":"2010-12-07T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T20:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=670"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:13:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:13:25","slug":"anthony-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/07\/anthony-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"1854 (Arguing for Justice) Anthony Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sources<\/strong>
\nNewspaper articles and other publications related to the event were published in The Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns<\/a><\/em> in1854. Other important primary sources include\u00a0Charles Emery Stevens’ Anthony Burns: A History<\/a><\/em> (1856),\u00a0E. H. Gray’s Assaults Upon Freedom! \u00a0A Discourse, Occassioned by the Rendition of Anthony Burns<\/a><\/em> (1854),\u00a0Theodore Parker’s The New Crime Against Humanity: A Sermon Preached at the Music Hall, in Boston, on Sunday, June 4, 1854<\/a><\/em> (1854) , and Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s\u00a0Massachusetts In Mourning: A Sermon, Preached in Worcester, on Sunday, June 4, 1854<\/a><\/em> (1854). \u00a0Henry David Thoreau also responded to Burns’ situation with an essay entitled\u00a0“Slavery in Massachusetts<\/a>” in 1854. In addition, the Massachusetts Historical Society has several collections with \u00a0material related to Burns’ case, such as\u00a0two<\/a> broadsides <\/a>. The Charles Cushing Barry Papers contain the checks<\/a> used to purchase Burns’ freedom in 1855. (You can see a detail image of the checks on this page<\/a> . Other collections with material related to Burns’ case include the Dana Family Papers<\/a>, the John A. Andrew Papers<\/a>, and the Theodore Parker Papers<\/a>. In addition,\u00a0this online finding aid<\/a> provides an overview of all the collections relevant to African American History at\u00a0the Massachusetts Historical Society.<\/p>\n

Important secondary sources include Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease’s The Fugitive Slave Law and Anthony Burns<\/em> (1975), Virginia Hamilton’s Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave<\/em> (1988), and Albert J. Von Frank’s The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston<\/a><\/em> (1998).<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nLewis Hayden was a member of the Boston Vigilance Committee and participated in the failed attempt to rescue Burns in 1854. While the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House<\/a> is on the Black Heritage Trail<\/a> in Boston, it is a private residence. See the Boston African American National Historic Site<\/a> website for more information. Other interesting places to visit include the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center<\/a> in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/p>\n

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Sources Newspaper articles and other publications related to the event were published in The Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns in1854. Other important primary sources include\u00a0Charles Emery Stevens’ Anthony Burns: A History (1856),\u00a0E. H. Gray’s Assaults Upon Freedom! \u00a0A Discourse, Occassioned by the Rendition of Anthony Burns (1854),\u00a0Theodore Parker’s The New Crime Against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8648,3973],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-grave-crisis-1801-1861","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2813,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/2813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}