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and slave catchers found him, captured him.
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Now, after Shadrach Minkins got out of Boston in 1852,
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the Anthony Burns rendition case captured the imagination of the nation,
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because Franklin Pierce, President of the United States,
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moved Federal troops, about 3000 of them,
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into the streets of Boston to guard the courthouse and to guard the jail
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and to guard the jail and make sure nobody broke Anthony Burns out.
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It became a test case for the Democratic Party of Massachusetts.
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And on the day Anthony Burns was marched--
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he was convicted--marched from the jail down to the wharf
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and put on a ship back to slavery in Virginia,
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the abolitionist community, black and white,