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Anthony Burns/Fugitive Slave
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:29:14
Publish Date: 2024-02-21 15:16:36
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In this documentary we explore how federal courts enforced fugitive slave laws. Historians, actors and legal scholars re-create the famous case of a young escaped slave who was sent back by a Boston judge, provoking America’s largest abolitionist protest.

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