Anthony Burns case

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The Anthony Burns case was a highly publicized 1854 fugitive slave rendition in Boston that galvanized Northern abolitionist sentiment and intensified national tensions over slavery.

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 notableCase Anthony Burns case