{"id":3977,"date":"2023-04-15T06:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T10:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2023-06-27T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T14:32:25","slug":"burns-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/burns-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns, Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anthony Burns <\/strong>was a freedom seeker who escaped from Virginia to Massachusetts, only to be captured and returned to slavery by federal authorities following a controversial and expensive rendition hearing in June 1854.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/epilogue-blackett\/\">Blackett<\/a><strong> \/\/<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/reconsidering-the-underground-railroad-in-canada-west-barker\/\">Barker<\/a><strong> \/\/<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/us-constitution-and-fugitive-slave-laws-finkelman\/\">Finkelman<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/the-new-england-network-to-freedom-grover\/\">Grover<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-politics-of-fugitive-slaves-oakes\/\">Oakes<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/introduction-pinsker\/\">Pinsker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-abolitionist-underground-sinha\/\">Sinha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/abolitionist\/\">Abolitionist<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/freedom-seeker\/\">Freedom Seeker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4712\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2023\/06\/HD_burnsA1c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4712\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4712\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2023\/06\/HD_burnsA1c.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Burns\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Burns ( <a href=\"https:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/1283\">House Divided Project<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Burns was a freedom seeker who escaped from Virginia to Massachusetts, only to be captured and returned to slavery by federal authorities following a controversial and expensive rendition hearing in June 1854. ESSAYS:Blackett \/\/Barker \/\/Finkelman \/\/ Grover \/\/ Oakes \/\/ Pinsker \/\/ Sinha ROLES: Abolitionist \/\/ Freedom Seeker &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23509,23510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abolitionist","category-freedom-seeker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3978,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}