Federal authorities escorted Anthony Burns through Boston and returned him to Virginia despite extensive protests. The use of troops showed that slavery relied on state power beyond plantation boundaries. His later purchase out of bondage did not undo this public enforcement of racial captivity.
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Federal intervention in Anthony Burns’s case protected him from being returned to slavery.
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Federal force enabled his return. State institutions could enforce enslavement even where abolitionists organized against it.