Anthony Burns 1855 Sailboat_Drawing rendered in full gallop against

rendered in full gallop against the darkness of the American night

the ink still warm with the work of remembrance after a war that nearly unmade the experiment

and the unshakable human desire to soar

The Gallant Capt

the summer heavens pinned like specimens to the page

Anthony Burns 1855 Sailboat_Drawing rendered in full gallop againstAnthony 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