Kidnapping again!!

This broadside publicizes the arrest of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia and made his way to Boston where, on May 24th, 1854, he was arrested. While he was awaiting trial for extradition to Virginia, a large crowd of abolitionists and anti-...

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1854
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English
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Boston Public Library
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United States
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1 broadside ; 48 x 62 cm.
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Massachusetts
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Suffolk
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Boston
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