Anthony Burns/Fugitive Slave

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. To see
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