books0977:The Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns, Title Page, 1854. Boston: Fetridge and
books0977:The Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns, Title Page, 1854. Boston: Fetridge and Company. Courtesy of the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections.The publication presents the fugitive slave case of Anthony Burns and recounts the riot that took place in Boston in response to the federal government orders to return him to his slave owner in Virginia under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act.“Must I go back?” Burns asked abolitionist Wendell Phillips, who blamed Boston: “Burns, there isn’t humanity, there isn’t Christianity, there isn’t justice enough here to save you; you must go back.” -- source link