Jamie Parker, the FugitivePublished one year after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, before Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared serialized in The National Era. Jamie Parker tells of slave insurrections and the right of the enslaved to escape. This book has been described as the first anti-slavery novel by a female abolitionist. |
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