From USA Today best-selling and multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Friedland comes a gripping work of fiction based on the true story of female abolitionist Ann Phillips and her connection to Anthony Burns, a young man who briefly escaped American slavery and rocked the nation with his astoundingly heroic story.
A passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, Ann’s 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, The Stockwell Letters— takes a deep dive into the harrowing conditions of the antebellum South and the obstacles faced by abolitionists who fought tirelessly to eradicate slavery. A fast-paced, arresting recounting of America’s not-so-distant history— the story will stay with readers long after the final page.
- 327 pages
- English
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Ann, Boston, 1836
- Anthony, Richmond, February 1854
- Colette, Richmond, July 1852
- Ann, Boston, 1836–1837
- Anthony, At Sea, February 1854
- Colette, Richmond, February 1853
- Ann, Boston, April 1851
- Colette, Richmond, February 1853
- Anthony, Boston, March–May 1854
- Ann, Boston, May 1854
- Anthony, Boston, May 1854
- Ann, Boston, May 1854
- Anthony, May 1854
- Colette, Richmond, May 1854
- Anthony, Boston, May 1854
- Ann, Boston, June 1854
- Anthony, Boston, June 1854
- Ann, Boston, June 1854
- Colette, Richmond, June 1854
- Anthony, At Sea, June 1854
- Colette, Richmond, June 1854
- Anthony, Richmond, June 1854
- Ann, Framingham, July 1854
- Anthony, Richmond, July 1854
- Colette, Richmond, July 1854
- Ann, Boston, August 1854
- Anthony, Richmond, August 1854
- Ann, Boston, September 1854
- Anthony, Richmond to Rocky Mount, October 1854
- Colette, Richmond, December 1854
- Anthony, Rocky Mount, December 1854
- Ann, Boston, January 1855
- Anthony, January–February 1855
- Colette, Outside of Richmond, November 1855
- Ann, Boston, April 1886
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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