Papers, 1834-1906.

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Papers, 1834-1906.

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Bank cashier, of Boston. Treasurer's accounts and a notebook of minutes of meetings (1834-38) of the Pine Street Anti Slavery Society of Boston of which Barry was secretary and treasurer; together with correspondence and documents (1855-1880) relating to the purchase of the freedom of the slave Anthony Burns with which Barry was involved as administrator and personal contributor.

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Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862

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Anthony Burns (31 May 1834 – 17 July 1862) was a fugitive slave whose recapturing, extradition, and court case led to wide-scale public outcries of injustice, and ultimately, increased opposition to slavery by Northerners. Burns was born a slave in Stafford County, Virginia. As a young man, he became a Baptist and a "slave preacher" at the Falmouth Union Church in Falmouth, Virginia. In 1853, he escaped from slavery and reached Boston, where he started working. The following year, he was c...

Barry, Charles Cushing, 1806-1888.

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Pine Street Anti Slavery Society (Boston, Mass.)

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