Anthony Burns 1855 Sailboat_Drawing It is a plate from

It is a plate from the age when Leverrier could conjure Neptune from arithmetic alone

rendered in full gallop against the darkness of the American night

and the unshakable human desire to soar

The Gallant Capt

Every territory and tonnage figure here belongs to a republic already arguing itself toward the brink

Anthony Burns 1855 Sailboat_Drawing It is a plate fromAnthony Burns 1855 the fugitive's likeness ringed by vignettes of his auction, his arrest in Boston, and his march back to Virginia under federal bayonets, a broadside that turned one man's rendition into the abolitionist North's sharpest indictment of the Slave Act. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the