The White Slave: Another Picture of Slave Life in America

This famous abolitionist novel, The White Slave: Another Picture of Slave Life in America, transcribed from the 1852 London edition which was an enlarged version of the original, published in Boston in 1836 with the title The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore, is often assumed to be non-fiction, the actual memoirs of a light-skinned former American slave. Richard Hildreth, after all, was the pre-eminent historian of early American history, having authored the six-volume History of the Unite...