Columbus, (Ohio): Follet, Foster & Co., 1860.
Price: $950.00
Hardcover. Second edition. Octavo. 400pp. Purple cloth stamped in blind and titled in gilt. Tidemark in the margins on the first dozen leaves, small spot on front board, a couple of pinholes in the gutters, a tight and sound very good copy. An anti-slavery novel by the white scion of a prominent Republican political family. In 1864, Hosmer was appointed first Chief Justice of the Montana Territory Supreme Court by Abraham Lincoln. The novel is important in that it was one of the first that, rather than just bemoaning the tragic fate of the oppressed female victim, employed the idea of retributive violence against slaveholders, in this story manifested as a righteous slave rebellion. See *Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture* by Sarah N. Roth. *Wright* 2-1271.
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