books.google.com - Before 1854, most Northerners managed to ignore the distant unpleasantness of slavery. But that year an escaped Virginia slave, Anthony Burns, was captured and brought to trial in Boston--and never again could Northerners look the other way. This is the story of Burns's trial and of how, arising in abolitionist...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_trials_of_Anthony_Burns.html?id=Vj7f249hSwsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe trials of Anthony Burns
