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The Trials of Anthony Burns

Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston

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PAPERBACK

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$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95

ISBN 9780674908505

Publication Date: 02/15/1999

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431 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

20 halftones (19 to run as "mock "insert, plus frontispiece

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  • 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 Cortège
  • 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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