SOURCE: Button, Marilyn D. “Reclaiming Mrs. Frances Trollope: British Abolitionist and Feminist.” CLA Journal 38, no. 1 (September 1994): 69-86.
In the following essay, Button discusses feminist and antislavery themes in Frances Trollope's The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, which she asserts was the first English novel to attack slavery in the United States.
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