When Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns Was Ordered Removed from Boston

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Multiple Choice

When fugitive slave Anthony Burns was ordered removed from Boston and returned to his master in the South, why were hundreds of ordinary citizens agonized by the process and trying to stop it?

• A) It forced them to reflect on their complicity with the institution of slavery.
• B) It made them realize how powerless they were over the federal government.
• C) Burns was actually a free black man known for working out of Boston's seaport.
• D) The Burns case first awakened white northern abolitionists to the horrors of the Fugitive Slave Act.

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