1861 THE FUGITIVE WIFE. Slave Laws Rightly Applied to Women Abused or Enslaved by Husbands. Bible Man might better assert the

Man might better assert the superiority he claims for himself in ceasing to prevent the progress of woman and by "Helping those women which laboured with me in the gospel

” an acquaintance complained in a letter to Senator Atchison

Wonderful autograph letter with intact original envelope entirely in the hand of perhaps the most influential Baptist hymn-writer of the 19th century

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Works by him are exceptionally rare on the market

1861 THE FUGITIVE WIFE. Slave Laws Rightly Applied to Women Abused or Enslaved by Husbands. Bible Man might better assert theAn exceptionally rare work directly lifting the language successfully applied to elicit compassion and action on behalf of fugitive slaves in the North and applying it to the plight of fugitive women, who were, according to Chase, enslaved in their marriages in a nearly identical way. It was a bold argument, but completely in character for Chase, with the emerging womens rights movement more broadly, and for the publisher, who had long been committed