Anthony Burns is arrested in Boston as a fugitive slave

Charles Suttle, Burns' owner, traveled to Boston in May 1854 to reclaim his property.  Under the stipulations of the fugitive slave law, Suttle obtained an arrest warrant from U.S. Commissioner Edward G. Loring.  Burns was apprehended on a false charge and imprisoned on May 24, 1854.  (By Blake Dickinson)
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Anthony Burns begins his education at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio

Anthony Burns, after having been returned from slavery in North Carolina to live in Boston once again, enrolls in Oberlin in the summer of 1855 after receiving an anonymously donated scholarship.  He supports himself at the College by selling copies of an autobiography that he dictates to Charles Emery Stevens.  (By Blake Dickinson)
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Illinois, 1853, zoomable

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Illinois
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Fannings' Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 163.

Florida, 1853

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Florida
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Fannings' Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 125.

Delaware, 1853

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Fannings' Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 103.

Georgia, 1853

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Utah, California, and New Mexico 1853

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Utah, New Mexico, and California
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Connecticut, 1853

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Connecticut
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Fannings' Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 91.
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