Anthony Burns

This broadside shows Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 touched off riots and protests by abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 1854. A bust portrait of the twenty-four-year-old Burns is surrounded by scenes from his life. 

"Anthony Burns" Boston: R.M. Edwards, 1855 Broadside Prints and Photographs Division (50)