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01760aam a2200301 i 4500 001 D371B762698D11EEB4E267D653ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231013010034 008 230721s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1684632145 020 $a 9781684632145 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Friedland, Jacqueline. 245 14 $a The Stockwell Letters : $b a novel / $c Jacqueline Friedland. 264 1 $a Phoenix, AZ : $b SparkPress, $c 2023. 300 $a 324 pages ; $c 22 cm. 500 $a A passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, Annâs activism was derailed just before her twenty-fourth birthday, when she fell sick with a mysterious illness. In order to protect her fragile health, her husband, the famous abolitionist Wendell Phillips, forbade her from joining any further anti-slavery outings. Even so, when fugitive slave Anthony Burns is apprehended in Boston, Ann is determined to help him, no matter what it costs her. With a particular focus on the predicament of nineteenth-century women who wanted to effect change despite the restrictions society imposed on them, this novel takes a deep dive into the harrowing conditions of the antebellum South and the obstacles faced by abolitionists who fought tirelessly to eradicate slavery. 541 $d 20230825. 650 $a Women abolitionists $v Fiction. 650 $a Fugitive slaves $x Fiction. 650 $a Antislavery movements $v Fiction. 651 $a United States $x Fiction. $y 1783-1865 $x Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20231102014305.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20231013010128.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D371B762698D11EEB4E267D653ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search