RESOURCES

Primary Source Documents

1. Broadside -  Caution!! Colored People of Boston

2. Broadside - A Man Kidnapped May 24, 1854

the primary source

1. Image: Rendition of Anthony Burns

2. Image: Trial of Anthony Burns

3. Image: Portrait of Anthony Burns

4. Liberator Articles

   Capture of Anthony Burns, Pleas for Release, June 2, 1854	-continuation-Capture of Anthony Burns, Pleas for Release, June 2, 1854	Triumph of the Slave Power June 9, 1854
   Refuge of Oppression and The Negro Race, June 9, 1854	Letter to the Editor - August 13, 1858 by Anthony Burns	Continuation-Letter to the Editor - August 13, 1858 by Anthony Burns

   
   
5. Maps

a. Map of the Southern States, showing the relative proportion of slaves in the different localities

b. Compromise of 1850, September 6, 1850, vote on passage of Texas-New Mexico provisions

Worksheets

Handout 1 - Map of Underground Railroad Escape Routes                  
Handout 2 - Document Analysis Worksheet

Websites:

• (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html)
• (http://www.nku.edu/~undergroundrr/lessonplans/files/9/Fugitive_Slave_Law.html)
• (http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=153)
• (http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/index.html)
• (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/fugitive.asp)
• (http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Map.htm)
• (http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/contents.htm)
• (http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/images/caution.gif)
• (http://portal.medford.k12.ma.us/imp/view.php?popup_view=1&index=2034&mailbos=I…)
• (http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/whatis.htm )
• ( http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/impact/index.html )
• ( http://www.archives.gov/northeast/education/slavery/Fugitive-slaves.html )
• (http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his312/klivingo/aburns12.htm)
• (http://www.edteck.com/dbq/more/analyzing.htm)
• (http://www.congresslink.org/print_lp_compromise1850.htm)

Bibliography:

1. Greenidge, Kerri. New England Remembers Boston’s Abolitionists. Beverly, MA: Commonwealth Editions, 2006.
2. Von Frank, Albert J. The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
3. Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
4. Pease, William H. and Jane H. The Fugitive Law and Anthony Burns: A Problem in Law Enforcement. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975.