1861 THE FUGITIVE WIFE. Slave Laws Rightly Applied to Women Abused or Enslaved by Husbands. Missionary on the treatment of white

on the treatment of white laborers [seemingly to prevent charges of "white slavery

were unabashedly abolitionist

BIRMINGHAM

but an exceptionally rare little work written by a first-hand missionary in Burmah

he became a Christ follower and was baptized in 1857

1861 THE FUGITIVE WIFE. Slave Laws Rightly Applied to Women Abused or Enslaved by Husbands. Missionary on the treatment of whiteAn 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