History of the United States I / Unit 14 USH1 1969 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Anthony Burns
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The idea
Anthony Burns escaped Virginia in eighteen fifty-three and was arrested in Boston in eighteen fifty-four, and abolitionists staged mass demonstrations and courthouse confrontations.
In practice
President Franklin Pierce enforcing the Act with federal troops.
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Burns went back to Virginia, and Boston abolitionists later purchased his freedom. Frederick Douglass was among those who concluded violence was necessary.
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