In this excerpt from her biography Isaac T. Hopper, published in 1854, L. Maria Child describes an incident in which the Quaker abolitionist, then living in New York, was caught up in a controversy surrounding a fugitive slave named Thomas Hughes.
In this excerpt from her biography Isaac T. Hopper, published in 1854, L. Maria Child describes how the Quaker abolitionist used legal trickery to help a fugitive slave from Virginia escape her master.
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