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Anthony Burns/Fugitive Slave

Anthony Burns/Fugitive Slave

Update: 2024-02-21
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In this documentary we explore how federal courts enforced fugitive slave laws. Historians, actors and legal scholars re-create the famous case of a young escaped slave who was sent back by a Boston judge, provoking America’s largest abolitionist protest.


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Anthony Burns/Fugitive Slave

Anthony Burns/Fugitive Slave

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