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Obi; Or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack

by William Earle · 1800

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A compelling fictional account of an eighteenth-century Jamaican slave rebellion, this previously unavailable novel is an important example of British Romantic anti-slavery literature.

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adult
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medium · 255 pages

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