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EspañolANTHONY BURNS
:''For other people named Burns, see Burns (disambiguation).''
:''Also see Anthony Burns (politician).''
'Anthony Burns' (31 May 1834 to 17 July 1862) was an escaped slave from Virginia who was captured by slave-hunters in Boston in 1854. His arrest, and Judge Edward G. Loring's decision to order him back into slavery in Virginia, outraged Abolitionists and many ordinary Bostonians, who were increasingly hostile towards the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Abolitionist plans to free Burns from prison and spirit him to safety were frustrated when President Pierce deployed federal artillery and Marines to take Burns to the ship back to Virginia. Abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson was injured in the struggle at the court house and later indicted for his role in the attempted rescue of Burns. While resisting the rescue, James Batchelder became the second U.S. Marshal to be killed in the line of duty. It has been estimated that the cost of capturing Burns was upwards of $40,000. (About $880,000 in 2005 equivalent)
The abolitionist community in Boston raised $1,200 in order to try to ransom Burns' freedom from his master, Charles F. Suttle, but Suttle refused to deal with anyone seeking Burns's emancipation. After Burns was forced back to Virginia, Suttle sold him for $905 to David McDaniel, a slaver, cotton planter, and horse-dealer from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Leonard A. Grimes eventually managed to ransom Burns's freedom from McDaniel, with financial aid from Boston, for $1,300. Burns, once freed, returned to live in Boston.
Anthony Burns died in St. Catharines on July 17, 1862.
★ Tuttleton, James W., ''Thomas Wentworth Higginson'', Twayne Publishers. pp. 34-36
★ Charles Emery Stevens (1855), ''Anthony Burns: A History''.
★ “Slavery in Massachusetts” (Henry David Thoreau’s reaction to the Burns trial)
★ PBS Resource Bank: People and Events: Anthony Burns captured, 1854
★ Ronica Roth (2003): The Trial of Anthony Burns, from ''Humanities'', May/June 2003, Volume 24/Number 3.
★ Henry David Thoreau (July 4, 1854): "Slavery in Massachusetts"
:''Also see Anthony Burns (politician).''
'Anthony Burns' (31 May 1834 to 17 July 1862) was an escaped slave from Virginia who was captured by slave-hunters in Boston in 1854. His arrest, and Judge Edward G. Loring's decision to order him back into slavery in Virginia, outraged Abolitionists and many ordinary Bostonians, who were increasingly hostile towards the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Abolitionist plans to free Burns from prison and spirit him to safety were frustrated when President Pierce deployed federal artillery and Marines to take Burns to the ship back to Virginia. Abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson was injured in the struggle at the court house and later indicted for his role in the attempted rescue of Burns. While resisting the rescue, James Batchelder became the second U.S. Marshal to be killed in the line of duty. It has been estimated that the cost of capturing Burns was upwards of $40,000. (About $880,000 in 2005 equivalent)
The abolitionist community in Boston raised $1,200 in order to try to ransom Burns' freedom from his master, Charles F. Suttle, but Suttle refused to deal with anyone seeking Burns's emancipation. After Burns was forced back to Virginia, Suttle sold him for $905 to David McDaniel, a slaver, cotton planter, and horse-dealer from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Leonard A. Grimes eventually managed to ransom Burns's freedom from McDaniel, with financial aid from Boston, for $1,300. Burns, once freed, returned to live in Boston.
Anthony Burns died in St. Catharines on July 17, 1862.
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| Sources |
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Sources
★ Tuttleton, James W., ''Thomas Wentworth Higginson'', Twayne Publishers. pp. 34-36
★ Charles Emery Stevens (1855), ''Anthony Burns: A History''.
See also
★ “Slavery in Massachusetts” (Henry David Thoreau’s reaction to the Burns trial)
Further reading
★ PBS Resource Bank: People and Events: Anthony Burns captured, 1854
★ Ronica Roth (2003): The Trial of Anthony Burns, from ''Humanities'', May/June 2003, Volume 24/Number 3.
★ Henry David Thoreau (July 4, 1854): "Slavery in Massachusetts"
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