Annal:1988 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the year 1988. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Nonfiction books
- Nonfiction authors.
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
- 1988 Horn Book-nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.38
The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston. But according to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway can be captured in any free state, and Anthony is soon imprisoned. The antislavery forces in Massachusetts are outraged, but the federal government backs the Fugitive Slave Act, sparking riots in Boston and fueling the Abolitionist movement.
Written with all the novelistic skill that has won her every major award in children’s literature, Virginia Hamilton’s important work of nonfiction puts young readers into the mind of Burns himself.
