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Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
by Cristin EllisFrom the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race studies today, Antebellum Posthuman argues that it first emerged as a key question in the antebellum era. In a moment in which the authority of science was increasingly invoked to defend slavery and other racist policies, abolitionist arguments underwent a profound shift, producing a new, materialist strain of antislavery. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman, and Dickinson, Cristin Ellis identifies and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, placing race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought. Turning to contemporary debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum posthumanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist ontologies of the human with the project of social justice.
Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
by Jermaine O. ArcherThough America experienced an increase in a native-born population and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with each passing decade. Archer examines the slave narratives of four key members of the abolitionist movement—Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs—revealing how these highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause were able to creatively engage and at times overcome the cultural biases of their listening and reading audiences. When engaged in public sphere discourses, these individuals were not, as some scholars have suggested, inclined to accept unconditionally stereotypical constructions of their own identities. Rather they were quite skillful in negotiating between their affinity with antislavery Christianity and their own intimate involvement with slave circle dance and improvisational song, burial rites, conjuration, divination, folk medicinal practices, African dialects and African inspired festivals. The authors emerge as more complex figures than scholars have imagined. Their political views, though sometimes moderate, often reflected a strong desire to strike a fierce blow at the core of the slavocracy.
Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan (American Controversies)
by Carol Lasser Stacey RoberttsonHow did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question by going beyond previous works in the field. The authors identify three phases in the changing relationship of women to civic and political activities. They first situate women as "deferential domestics" in a world of conservative gender expectations; then map out the development of an ideology that allowed women to leverage their familial responsibilities into participation as "companionate co-workers" in movements of religion, reform, and social welfare; and finally trace the path of those who followed their causes into the world of politics as "passionate partisans." The book includes a selection of primary documents that encompasses both well-known works and previously unpublished texts from a variety of genre
Antebellum and Civil War San Francisco: A Western Theater for Northern & Southern Politics (Civil War Ser.)
by Monika TrobitsWhen Americans migrated westward, they took their politics with them, making San Francisco a microcosm of the nation as the Civil War loomed. Spurred by the promise of gold, hungry adventurers flocked to San Francisco in search of opportunity on the eve of the Civil War. The city flourished and became a magnet for theater. Some of the first buildings constructed in San Francisco were theater houses, and John Wilkes Booth&’s famous acting family often graced the city&’s stages. In just two years, San Francisco&’s population skyrocketed from eight hundred to thirty thousand, making it an &“instant city&” where tensions between transplanted Northerners and Southerners built as war threatened the nation. Though seemingly isolated, San Franciscans took their part in the conflict. Some extended the Underground Railroad to their city, while others joined the Confederate-aiding Knights of the Golden Circle. Including a directory of local historic sites and streets, author Monika Trobits chronicles the dramatic and volatile antebellum and Civil War history of the City by the Bay. Includes photos
Anteros: A Forgotten Myth
by Craig E. StephensonAnteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work of Freud, Lacan, and Jung, among others. It examines the successive cultural experiences that formed and inform the myth and also how the myth sheds light on individual human experience and the psychoanalytic process. Topics of discussion include: Anteros in the Italian Renaissance, the French Enlightenment and English Modernism psychologizing Anteros: Freud, Lacan, Girard, and Jung three anterotic moments in a consulting room. This book presents an important argument at the boundaries of the disciplines of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis, art history, and mythology. It will therefore be essential reading for all analytical psychologists and psychoanalysts as well as art historians and those with an interest in the meeting of psychoanalytic thought and mythology.
Antes de Colombia (País 360): Los primeros 14.000 años
by Carl Henrik LangebaekÚnico en su género, el nuevo libro de Carl Langebaek abre una ventana a nuestro pasado remoto, cuando los primeros humanos llegaron al territorio que hoy conocemos como Colombia. Ocurrió hace 14.000 años, o más. Los primeros en llegar fueron cazadores-recolectores que entraron en el trópico, un ecosistema cuyas implicaciones ambientales favorecieron entre ellos formas culturales de las que, hasta ahora, poco se sabía. Langebaek ofrece una visión crítica y amplia sobre la historia de las comunidades indígenas y sobre nuestra propia sociedad. En esta apasionante expedición a las culturas originarias, desmitifica ideas preconcebidas, y de la mano de los más importantes hallazgos arqueológicos en suelo colombiano, hace luminosas inferencias sobre lo que sucedió en este lugar del mundo antes de la llegada de los españoles.
Antes de que llegaras
by Lisa WingateEl libro que ha arrasado por sorpresa en las listas de Estados Unidos, basado en el impactante caso de niños robados que conmocionó al país. Aunque la vida nos lleve por diferentes caminos,el corazón siempre recuerda a dónde pertenece. Memphis, 1939 Rill Foss y sus cuatro hermanos pequeños disfrutan de una infancia mágica en su casa-barco en el Misisipi. Hasta que una noche de tormenta sus padres tienen que correr al hospital y unos desconocidos llegan para llevárselos a la fuerza al orfanato. Aunque les aseguran que su estancia allí será solo temporal, Rill pronto se dará cuenta de la terrible verdad. Y de que tendrá que luchar con todas sus fuerzas para mantener juntos a sus hermanos en un mundo de crueldad e incertidumbre. Aiken, Carolina del Sur, en la actualidad Avery Stafford ha vivido una vida de riqueza y privilegio, tiene una exitosa carrera política y pronto va a casarse con su encantador prometido. Pero un encuentro fortuito suscita dolorosas preguntas que la empujan a investigar en la historia oculta de su familia... y a destapar secretos que pueden llevarla a la destrucción o la redención. Una conmovedora novela inspirada en el escándalo real de la organización de adopciones que durante treinta años secuestró y vendió niños desfavorecidos a familias acomodadas por todo el país. ** En los primeros puestos de USA Today, Amazon y The New York Times. ** Mejor novela histórica del año para los lectores de Goodreads. Han dicho...«Uno de los mejores libros del año... Es imposible no dejarte atrapar por esta novela prácticamente perfecta. Se lleva tu corazón desde la primera página.»The Huffington Post «Una novela fantástica.»Publishers Weekly «La historia de una familia perdida y encontrada... Un relato cautivador y muy emotivo sobre el amor fraternal y el peso de los secretos.»People «Con seguridad este va a ser uno de los libros más apasionantes de este año... Wingate es una maestra en el arte de contar historias.»Parade «Una historia sincera y genuina.»Historical Novels Review «De cuando en cuando encuentro una novela que me enamora, y Antes de que llegaras de Lisa Wingate es uno de esos libros... Tomen nota: esta puede ser la mejor novela del año.»Shreveport Times «Una historia compleja y que invita a pensar sobre dos familias separadas por dos generaciones... Basada en un famoso escándalo real.»Library Journal
Antes de que me olvide: Memorias con Marcelo Ramos
by Luis BrandoniLa autobiografía de Luis Brandoni, uno de los actores más reconocidos de la Argentina, en un relato que entrevera su historia personal desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad, con su larga trayectoria en cine, teatro y televisión, y una intensa carrera política que va de su activa participación gremial y su persecución durante la dictadura a su involucramiento como funcionario público por el radicalismo. «Un gran actor; de una especie, a mi juicio, en extinción. [De] los que, contando con instrumentos actorales que les permiten transitar con excelencia por gran parte del teatro "culto", tienen una especial capacidad de observación y reproducción de rasgos y conductas de la tipología popular. Y a los que ese don extraordinario los convierte en artistas adorados por los sectores masivos del público. Un público que los vive como cómplices, como parte de su familia».Sergio Renán «Este hombre que había logrado hacerme llorar de risa en un programa de televisión, y de emoción en una película, [ha conseguido hacer] las dos cosas en una misma obra. Beto logra el truco del mago, ese de arrancarte carcajadas y ponerte un nudo en la garganta en un lapso de segundos. Pero hay otra dimensión insoslayable de Beto. Su compromiso con el país, su labor política. [...] De eso habla, y mucho, en estas memorias. Es todo apasionante. Este libro, que es también la historia del teatro y el país de los últimos sesenta años, es un libro para aprender, para regocijarse, para emocionarse. Es para amantes del teatro y amantes del compromiso. Es el backstage de las últimas seis décadas de nuestro país. En él van a poder ver a uno de sus protagonistas, cabeza de compañía, actor de carácter y creador. Un actor, un político y un hombre como muy, muy pocos. "Aprovechenló", ya no hacen gente así».Juan José Campanella A los ochenta años, y con sesenta de trayectoria en cine, teatro y televisión, Luis Brandoni, uno de los actores más famosos de Argentina, nos ofrece por primera vez una mirada precisa, sentida y detallada sobre su vida y su carrera. El relato de su origen en Dock Sud y su vida familiar, el servicio militar y, en orden cronológico: La Comedia Nacional; su experiencia sobre tablas (acá y en el mundo) y en pantalla, de Oscar Viale a Jean Genet y de Luisa Vehil y Migré a Campanella, un vistazo a todas sus películas (de Renán a Cohn-Duprat y Borensztein) y su inclaudicable compromiso político -la pelea por los canales de televisión abierta, la dictadura y el exilio, la experiencia de Teatro Abierto-; y un balance personal que se complementa con una exhaustiva cronología de su obra; la lista de los reconocimientos que ha merecido y un completo índice onomástico que, más allá de su carácter práctico, da cuenta del infinito universo artístico y social al que pertenece.
Anthem
by Ayn RandAnthem, which was written during a break from the writing of the author’s next major novel, The Fountainhead, presents a vision of a dystopian future world in which totalitarian collectivism has triumphed to such an extent that even the word ‘I’ has been forgotten and replaced with ‘we’.The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. A young man known as Equality 7-2521 rebels by doing secret scientific research. When his activity is discovered, he flees into the wilderness with the girl he loves. Together they plan to establish a new society based on rediscovered individualism.This is the revised version published in 1946, which went on to sell more than 3.5 million copies.
Anthem (The Sixties Trilogy #3)
by Deborah WilesFrom two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, the remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across America in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Full of photos, music, and figures of the time, this is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times.It's 1969.Molly is a girl who's not sure she can feel anything anymore, because life sometimes hurts way too much. Her brother Barry ran away after having a fight with their father over the war in Vietnam. Now Barry's been drafted into that war - and Molly's mother tells her she has to travel across the country in an old schoolbus to find Barry and bring him home.Norman is Molly's slightly older cousin, who drives the old schoolbus. He's a drummer who wants to find his own music out in the world - because then he might not be the "normal Norman" that he fears he's become. He's not sure about this trip across the country . . . but his own mother makes it clear he doesn't have a choice.Molly and Norman get on the bus - and end up seeing a lot more of America that they'd ever imagined. From protests and parades to roaring races and rock n' roll, the cousins make their way to Barry in San Francisco, not really knowing what they'll find when they get there.As she did in her other epic novels Countdown and Revolution, two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles takes the pulse of an era . . . and finds the multitude of heartbeats that lie beneath it.
Anthem for Doomed Youth: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple #19)
by Carola DunnAlec Fletcher's plans to attend his daughter Belinda's school sports day are thwarted by the discovery of three bodies buried in Epping forest. Sent to investigate, he and his team are hindered from the start by uncooperative Essex policeman, DI Gant, who resents Scotland Yard encroaching on his patch. But a bigger problem, however, is identifying the victims and finding a common link between them to explain their being buried so close together, though at intervals of several months.When Alec tells Daisy about the case, she's hooked, and with her own bit of digging around, uncovers the fact that one of the victims was a colonel. Is there a military connection? And when the police eventually discover that the other victims did serve with the colonel, this becomes a tragic case with its roots firmly buried in events during the Great War.Praise for the Daisy Dalrymple series:Cunning ... appropriate historical detail and witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece. Publisher's Weekly.As always, Dunn evokes the life and times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy. This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries. Booklist.For fans of Dorothy L.Sayers novels. Library Journal.
Anthem for Doomed Youth: Twelve Soldier Poets of the First World War
by Prof Jon StallworthyLeading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades and poets inspired by abstract ideals. In part this reflected the national mood , but it revealed an almost universal failure to understand what modern mass warfare would really mean. The story of the 'war poets' is also the story of an awakening to the full horror of what the twentieth century came to know as 'The Great War'.Wilfred Owen said, 'My subject is War - and the pity of War'. He also said 'true Poets must be truthful'. The best war poetry was the work of writers who were also serving soldiers and was born out of their desire to tell the truth about what it was to be a soldier in the trenches - what it felt like, what it did to you and what it did to your fellow soldiers, friend or foe. The greatness of the poetry lay not just in the writer's talent, but in the unflinching accuracy with which it portrayed their terrible circumstances.
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
by Shana L. RedmondFor people of African descent, music constitutes a unique domain of expression. From traditional West African drumming to South African kwaito, from spirituals to hip-hop, Black life and history has been dynamically displayed and contested through sound. Shana Redmond excavates the sonic histories of these communities through a genre emblematic of Black solidarity and citizenship: anthems. An interdisciplinary cultural history, Anthem reveals how this “sound franchise” contributed to the growth and mobilization of the modern, Black citizen. Providing new political frames and aesthetic articulations for protest organizations and activist-musicians, Redmond reveals the anthem as a crucial musical form following World War I.Beginning with the premise that an analysis of the composition, performance, and uses of Black anthems allows for a more complex reading of racial and political formations within the twentieth century, Redmond expands our understanding of how and why diaspora was a formative conceptual and political framework of modern Black identity. By tracing key compositions and performances around the world—from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” that mobilized the NAACP to Nina Simone’s “To Be Young, Gifted & Black” which became the Black National Anthem of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)—Anthem develops a robust recording of Black social movements in the twentieth century that will forever alter the way you hear race and nation.
Anthems and Minstrel Shows: The Life and Times of Calixa Lavallée, 1842-1891
by Brian Christopher ThompsonCalixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallée and his work extended well beyond Canada, and he played a multitude of roles in North American music as a composer, conductor, administrator, instrumentalist, educator, and critic. In Anthems and Minstrel Shows, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallée’s music, letters, and published writings, as well as newspapers and music magazines of the time, to provide a detailed account of musical life in nineteenth-century North America and the relationship between music and nation. Leaving Quebec at age sixteen, Lavallée travelled widely for a decade as musical director of a minstrel troupe, and spent a year as a bandsman in the Union Army. Later, as a performer and conductor, he built a repertoire that prepared audiences for the intellectually challenging music of European composers and new music by his US contemporaries. His own music extended from national songs to comic operas, and instrumental music, as he shifted between the worlds of classical and popular music. Previously portrayed as a humble French Canadian forced into exile by ignorance and injustice, Lavallée emerges here as ambitious, radical, bohemian, and fully engaged with the musical, social, and political currents of his time. While nationalism and nation-building are central to this story, Anthems and Minstrel Shows asks to which nation – or nations – Lavallée and “O Canada” really belong.
Anthems: Community, Land, and Song (SUNY series in New Political Science)
by Nancy S. LoveAn examination of struggles for national sovereignty and social justice as seen through patriotic anthems and songs of resistance.Anthems are songs of loyalty and devotion with religious or quasi-religious meanings, typically associated with nation-states. Singing patriotic songs together encourages a sense of shared identity and unified community among citizens. Anthems compares traditional American anthems, such as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful," with anthems of resistance from contemporary social movements, such as Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and Standing Rock. Although seldom fully recognized by political scientists, musical song plays a significant role in struggles for national unity and social justice. While America's national anthems celebrate a unitary (white) nation, these alternative anthems challenge the definition of sovereignty as property that characterizes modern Western democracies. They offer an alternative vision of a multicultural democracy still struggling to emerge. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective on culture, economics, and politics best described as critical theory, Anthems is intended for scholars, students, and, most important, citizens.
Anthology (Wild West Exodus )
by Brandon RospondBlood drenches the sands of the Wild West as the promise of a new age dies, screaming its last breath into an uncaring night. An ancient evil has arisen in the western territories, calling countless people with a siren song of technology and promises of power and glory the likes of which the world has never known. Forces move into the deserts, some answering the call, others desperate to destroy the evil before it can end all life on Earth.
Anthology of Chinese Literature: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century (Volume I)
by Cyril BirchInternationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive introductory anthologies. The selections in this first volume span a two-thousand-year period: from the Chou Dynasty (1122–221 B.C.) to the Y’an Dynasty (A.D. 1280–1367), from the ancient Songs to the dramas of the fourteenth century, every major genre of Chinese literature is represented by a crucial work. Highlights include, in addition to the great poems of the T’ang, outstanding examples of Han poetry, Six Dynasties satire, T’ang-sung prose essays and fiction, and the form of lyric known as “tz’u.”
Anthology of Classical Myth
by Stephen Brunet R. Scott Smith Stephen M. Trzaskoma Thomas G. PalaimaThis is a collection of translations of ancient Greek and Roman sources that we have found suitable for teaching classical mythology at the undergraduate level. In that sense, the title is misleading, but Anthology of Stuff That Is Connected in One Way or Another with Mythology in the Ancient World seemed a tad unwieldy to us.
Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation
by Stephen Brunet R. Scott Smith Stephen TrzaskomaTrzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, and Stephen Brunet (all classics, U. of New Hampshire) have assembled and newly translated ancient Greek and Roman texts relating in one way or another to mythology in the ancient world. They selected those that they have found useful for teaching classical mythology at the undergraduate level. Mostly excerpts, the passages are arranged alphabetically by author. Supporting the anthology are maps; genealogical charts; timelines; appendices on Linear B sources, inscriptions, and papyri; notes on texts and translations, explanations of names and transliteration, and a combination index and glossary. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation
by Stephen Brunet R. Scott Smith Stephen M. TrzaskomaThis new edition of Anthology of Classical Myth offers selections from key Near Eastern texts—the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Epic of Creation (Enuma Elish), and Atrahasis; the Hittite Song of Emergence; and the flood story from the book of Genesis—thereby enabling students to explore the many similarities between ancient Greek and Mesopotamian mythology and enhancing its reputation as the best and most complete collection of its kind.
Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues: An exploration into new frontiers (China Academic Library)
by Yijie TangThis book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven, knowledge and practice, scenery and feeling, reflect a pursuit of an ideal goal in traditional Chinese philosophy characterized by the thought mode uniting man and nature. This book also discusses the anti-traditionalism of the May Fourth Movement, explaining that the true value of "sagacity theory" in traditional Chinese philosophy, especially in Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties, lies in its insights into universal life. In addition, existing ideas, issues, terminologies, concepts, and logic of Chinese philosophical thought were actually shaped by Western philosophy. It is necessary to be alienated from traditional status for the creation of a viable "Chinese philosophy. " "Modern Chinese philosophy" in the 1930s and 1940s was comprised of scholarly work that characteristically continued rather than followed the traditional discourse of Chinese philosophy. That is to say, in the process of studying and adapting Western philosophy, Chinese philosophers transformed Chinese philosophy from traditional to modern. In the end of the book, the author puts forward the idea of a "New Axial Age. " He emphasizes that the rejuvenation of Chinese culture we endeavor to pursue has to be deeply rooted in our mainstream culture with universal values incorporating cultures of other nations, especially the cultural essence of the West.
Anthomaniac Princess: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Er Chun"Seventh Prince, have you seen how well I've painted your smoky makeup today?" "Hong Liang, Miss Qiao has a sharp eye. She is to be escorted back to the mansion and is to be accompanied by Su Erzhong to treat Miss Qiao." "Hey, Seventh Prince, don't go yet. There's nothing wrong with my eyes, and I haven't slept for the whole night. I've written a few poems for you, you can listen to them." Seventh Prince was the heavens, Seventh Prince was the earth, and Seventh Prince was the radish and vegetables. Small cool is a flower, small cool is a treasure, small cool is that day fairy. "Ah — the flower and the radish with the fairy, a natural pair!" Just as she finished speaking, the purple-clothed servant girl stood beside the pink-clothed lady with big strides and also held up the cloth in her hand. She recited: "You are the number one marshal in the world, I am the prettiest in the world, you and I love each other and have a fat child to kiss!"
Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith: Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany
by Michael T. WaltonA biography of Anthonius Margaritha, convert to Christianity and reporter on Jewish life and religious practices.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury 1621–1683
by John SpurrAnthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury, was a giant on the English political scene of the later seventeenth century. Despite taking up arms against the king in the Civil War, and his active participation in the republican governments of the 1650s, Shaftesbury managed to retain a leading role in public affairs following the Restoration of Charles II, being raised to the peerage and holding several major offices. Following his dismissal from government in 1673 he then became de facto leader of the opposition faction and champion of the Protestant cause, before finally fleeing the country in 1681 following charges of high treason. In order to understand fully such a complex and controversial figure, this volume draws upon the specialised knowledge of nine leading scholars to investigate Shaftesbury's life and reputation. As well as re-evaluating the well-known episodes in which he was involved - his early republican sympathies, the Cabal, the Popish Plot and the politics of party faction - other less familiar themes are also explored. These include his involvement with the expansion of England's overseas colonies, his relationship with John Locke, his connections with Scotland and Ireland and his high profile public reputation. Each chapter has been especially commissioned to give an insight into a different facet of his career, whilst simultaneously adding to an overall evaluation of the man, his actions and beliefs. As such, this book presents a unique and coherent picture of Shaftesbury that draws upon the very latest interdisciplinary research, and will no doubt stimulate further work on the most intriguing politician of his generation.
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
by Virginia HamiltonThe &“unforgettable&” novel from the Newbery Medal–winning author tells the true story of a runaway slave whose capture and trial set off abolitionist riots (Kirkus Reviews).Anthony Burns is a runaway slave who has just started to build a life for himself in Boston. Then his former owner comes to town to collect him. Anthony won&’t go willingly, though, and people across the city step forward to make sure he&’s not taken. Based on the true story of a man who stood up against the Fugitive Slave Law, Hamilton&’s gripping account follows the battle in the streets and in the courts to keep Burns a citizen of Boston—a battle that is the prelude to the nation&’s bloody Civil War.