Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

Virginia Hamilton. Laurel Leaf Library, $6.5 (193pp) ISBN 978-0-679-83997-2

This riveting, much lauded historical chronicle concerns a Virginia slave's aborted flight to freedom--and subsequent trial; PW said, ``This moving story becomes all the more scathing and rich for being rooted in truth.'' All ages. (Feb.)

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