1861 THE FUGITIVE WIFE. Slave Laws Rightly Applied to Women Abused or Enslaved by Husbands. Missionary the Last Years of Ziegenbalg

the Last Years of Ziegenbalg by W

he was sent to lead the Methodist Episcopal Church in America and

Not published until 9 years later

Middlebury

1861 THE FUGITIVE WIFE. Slave Laws Rightly Applied to Women Abused or Enslaved by Husbands. Missionary the Last Years of ZiegenbalgAn 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