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What is the book "A Slave Romance" about?

Unusual, too, was the inclusion of an author’s introduction, claiming a truthful and politically-neutral representation of enslaved peoples.

Where was Metta Victor born?

Born near Erie, Pennsylvania in 1831, Metta Victoria Fuller ’s family later moved to Wooster, Ohio where she attended a female seminary. By the age of fifteen she had published poems and stories in a variety of periodicals. She married Orville Victor, the editor of the Sandusky, Ohio newspaper, Daily Register, in 1856. Two years later the Victors moved to New York City, where she and Orville became editors of and contributors to the publishing house of Beadle and Adams, originators of the dime novel format. Metta Victor wrote several dime novels for Beadle and Adams prior to Maum Guinea, including The Dime Cook-Book (using one of many pen names, Louis LeGrand); Alice Wilde ; The Backwoods Bride; and Uncle Ezekiel. In 1862, she published the Civil War themed dime novel The Unionist’s Daughter.

What were the abolitionists' beliefs?

Abolitionists believed in the concept of “ moral suasion ,” that in convincing others that slavery was morally wrong, the practice would consequently end. But they underestimated the centrality of slavery to the economic structures of both the North and South. Moreover, abolitionists frequently disagreed about the goals and means of ending slavery. African American abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass were often frustrated with Northern abolitionists’ unwillingness to fully take on issues of racism and full citizenship for African Americans. Publishers also disagreed, finding each other too radical or too conservative and accommodating to white society.