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unusual facts about Anthony Burns


Anthony Burns

With proceeds that came from his biography, combined with a scholarship, Burns received an education at Oberlin College in Ohio.


Lewis and Harriet Hayden House

Hayden was one of the men who helped rescue Shadrach Minkins from federal custody in 1851, and he played a significant role in the attempted rescue of Anthony Burns.


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Samuel Gridley Howe

The first occurred in 1850, when Dr. Howe along with Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker and other abolitionists, stormed Faneuil Hall in order to try to free a captured escaped slave, Anthony Burns.