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LETCHER,
R. S.
A History of Oberlin College
. 2 vols. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College, 1943.

G
RAY,
E. H.
Assaults upon Freedom: A Discourse Occasioned by the Rendition of Anthony Burns
. Shelburne Falls, Mass.: D. B. Gunn, 1854.

H
IGGINSON,
T
HOMAS
W
ENTWORTH.
Cheerful Yesterdays
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.

L
ANDON,
F
RED.
“Anthony Burns in Canada,” in
Papers and Records of the Ontario Historical Society
, vol. 22, pp. 162—66. Ontario: Ontario Historical Society, 1925.

Letters from Anthony Burns. From Jail to Reverend Grimes, May 24, 1854; From Amherst, Mass., to Reverend Grimes, March 27, 1855; to Reverend Grimes, April 10, 1855; to Charles Emery Stevens, July 20, 1855. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College Archives.

M
ORRIS,
R
ICHARD
B., ed.
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. New York: Harper Brothers, 1953.

N
ELSON,
T
RUMAN.
The Sin of the Prophet
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1952.

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ARKER,
T
HEODORE.
A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
, 4th ed. New York: Putnam, 1876.

P
HILLIPS,
W
ENDELL.
Speeches, Lectures and Letters
. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1884.

P
LOSKI,
H. A., and B
ROWN,
R
OSCOE
C, J
R.
The Negro Almanac
. New York: Bellwether Publishing Co., 1967.

S
TEVENS,
C
HARLES
E
MERY.
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T
ROWBRIDGE,
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OHN
T
OWNSEND.
My Own Story: With Recollections
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Index

A

Abolitionists,
4
,
36
,
39–40
,
54–56
,
71–80
,
98
,
103–5

Antislavery leaflets,
55–56
,
103
,
152–53

B

Ball, R. A.,
173

Barnum, P. T.,
171–72

Batchelder, James,
92
,
94
,
98

Big Walker.
See
Burns, Big Walker

Black Laws, Indiana,
173

Boston,
54–56
,
66
.
See also
Vigilance Committee

Breeder slaves,
15
,
28
,
58

Brent, William,
5–7
,
21
,
35–36
,
58–60
,
94
,
106
,
120
,
165

in Boston,
56
,
71
,
152

in court,
51
,
123
,
126
,
128
-
29
,
143

Brown, Horace W.,
139

Burns, Big Walker,
9
,
10
,
11–14
,
29–34

Butman, Asa,
19
,
21–23
,
34
,
35
,
40–41
,
53–54
,
69
,
71
,
153–56
,
160–61
,
163
,
165

C

Capture of fugitive slaves,
22
Burns,
3–7

Childhood,
8–18
,
24–32

Court trial,
45–54
,
123–29
,
134–51
,
157–62

Cross, Cal,
131–32

D

Dana, Richard Henry,
39
,
42–47
,
49
,
67–68
,
94
,
95
,
123
,
153
,
160–61

at trial,
125–29
,
134–36
,
141–49
,
157
,
159

Defense lawyers,
45–46
,
94
,
123

Drew, George H.,
138

E

Edmands, B. F.,
143

Ellis, Charles Mayo,
39
,
46
,
49
,
94
,
95
,
123–26
,
136–38

Employment,
113–16
,
118–21
,
133

Escape from slavery,
130–33

Evidence in court,
134–36
,
159

F

Faneuil Hall, Boston,
4
,
72–81

Father of Anthony,
15
,
31–32
,
33

Favor, John,
139

Foote, Mr. and Mrs.,
113–16

Free Soil party,
43

Freedom,
60–61
,
168–71

purchase effort,
98–102
,
105–7

Freeman, Watson,
6–7
,
35
,
52
,
53
,
66
,
91
,
93
,
97
,
106

and sale of Burns,
100–101

at trial,
123
,
127

Fugitive Slave Act,
21–22
,
39
,
48–49
,
52
,
126–28
,
135
,
142–43
,
159
,
181–86

Dana's argument,
147

opposition to,
54
,
67–68

Funerals of slaves,
117

G

Gould, Cyrus,
141

Grimes, Leonard,
20
,
38–40
,
56–57
,
67–70
,
96
,
123
,
160–61
,
169–72

and freedom purchase,
98–102
,
105–7

H

Habeas corpus,
175

Hallett, Benjamin,
35–36
,
40–41
,
93
,
99
,
123–25
,
127
,
143–44
,
157
,
175

and sale of Bums,
101–2
,
106–7

Hand injury,
20
,
115–16

Higginson, Thomas W.,
73
,
79–80
,
91–92
,
175

Hiring Ground,
60–61
,
82
,
88–89
,
109–14
,
117–18

Howe, Samuel G.,
75

I-J-K

Imprisonment: in Boston,
19–23
,
33–41
,
56
in Virginia,
167–68

Indiana, Black Laws,
173

Jones, William,
138

Judges, and slave cases,
49
,
67

Kansas-Nebraska Bill,
54–55
,
66

L

Letters:

in prison,
69–71

to Virginia church,
20–21
,
134

Loring, Edward,
22
,
36
,
42
,
46–47
,
67–68
,
95

court hearing,
51–53
,
96–97

and sale of Burns,
100–2
,
105–6

trial,
124–29
,
135–36
,
140
,
142
,
148–49
,
153
,
157–59
,
166

Lumpkin, Robert,
166

M

Mamaw,
9
,
12
,
15
,
25–32
,
60

Mattapan Works,
133
,
138–39

Maude Maw,
118–20

McDaniel, David,
168–71

Millspaugh,
120–21
,
130

Missouri Compromise,
54–55

Morriss, Robert,
46
,
123

Music of slaves,
25–26
,
117

O-P

Oberlin College,
172

Parker, Edward G.,
48–49
,
94–96
,
99
,
123
,
126
,
135

Parker, Theodore,
36–39
,
42
,
46
,
49–51
,
55–56
,
77–78
,
98
,
103–5
,
123
,
152
,
175

Personal Liberty Law,
175

Phillips, Wendell,
46
,
67–68
,
75–77
,
79
,
98
,
123
,
175

Pierce, Franklin,
67
,
97
,
143–44

Pitts, Coffin,
4
,
20
,
36–38
,
57

Posse comitatus,
22
,
186
n

Preaching by Burns,
116–17
,
173

Protest meeting,
72–73
,
74–81

R

Reading, learning of,
17
,
26–27
,
115
,
118
,
120

Rescue attempt,
72–73
,
79–80
,
90–92

Riley (deputy),
34
,
162
,
165

Russell, George R.,
74

S

St. Catharines, Canada,
173–74

Shadrach,
43
,
72

Sims, Thomas,
19
,
42
,
43
,
56
,
66
,
154

Slavery,
8–18
,
24–32
,
58–65

capture after escape,
3–7
,
66

employment,
58–60
,
82–89
,
109–21

escape from,
130–33

freedom purchased,
168–71

imprisonment,
167–68

legislation,
54–55

opposition to,
36
,
39–40
,
42–44
,
54–57
,
66–67
,
71–80
,
98
,
103–5
,
161–65

return to,
160–66

Stevens, Charles Emery,
172

Stockwell, G. S.,
169
,
171

Stowell, Martin,
73
,
79–80
,
91–92
,
175

Suttle, Charles,
5–7
,
21
,
35–36
,
44
,
58–60
,
84–85
,
94
,
109–14

in Boston,
56
,
71
,
123
,
152

and return to slavery,
165–66

sale of Burns,
96
,
98–102
,
106
,
168

Suttle, John,
6
,
10–18
,
24–25

Suttle, Missy,
12–13
,
15
,
24
,
31

Swift, John,
75

T

Testimony in court,
51–52
,
126
,
128
,
138–42

Thomas, Seth,
50–52
,
94
,
99

at trial.
123
,
126
,
128
,
134
-
36
,
138
,
140–42
,
149–51

Tremont Temple,
36
,
71
,
103–4

Troops, to defend Court House,
92
,
93
,
97
,
122–23
,
143
-
44
,
156–57
,
163–65

True, Ben,
140

Two-heads,
118–20

U-V-W

Vigilance Committee, Boston,
39
,
42
,
46
,
67
,
71–73

Visions,
116

Whittemore, James F.,
139

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