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File name: 12_05_000024 Local call number: RARE BKS H.90.284 xxb Title: Kidnapping again!! Other title information: A man was stolen last night by the Fugitive Slave Bill Commissioner Genre: Broadsides Created/Published: [Boston : s.n.] Date issued: 1854 (inferred) Physical description: 1 broadside ; 48 x 62 cm. Physical description note: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy has a small ink ownership stamp in the lower right corner of the sheet. General notes: Title from item.; Full text of this broadside reads: "Kidnapping again!! A man was stolen last night by the Fugitive Slave Bill Commissioner! He will have his mock trial on Saturday, May 27, at 9 o'clock, in the kidnapper's 'court,' before the Hon. Slave Bill Commissioner, at the court house, in Court Square. Shall Boston steal another man? Thursday, May 25, 1854." Date notes: Date from item. Biographical and historical notes : This broadside publicizes the arrest of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia and made his way to Boston where, on May 24th, 1854, he was arrested. While he was awaiting trial for extradition to Virginia, a large crowd of abolitionists and anti-slavery sympathizers stormed the jail in which he was held in an attempt to free him. Federal troops were eventually sent to Boston to support the extradition, and Burns was ultimately returned to Virginia. He was later ransomed from slavery, eventually obtaining an education at Oberlin College and becoming a Baptist minister. Subjects: Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States; United States. Fugitive slave law (1850); Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862 Collection: Anti-Slavery Collection Location: Boston Public Library, Rare Books Department