This book wins first place in the "Book That Sounds Like a Fun Kid's Story But Is Actually a Searing Treatise on Slavery" awards. And the most famous anti-slavery novel was written by a white female abolitionist in response to the strengthened Fugitive Slave Law.

And not only was this book super popular, it did its job, too—it really got folks riled up about slavery, and combined with the Fugitive Slave Law, it helped push moderate Northerners into the anti-slavery camp.

Frederick Douglass' Paper didn't officially review the book, but it published a letter to the editor praising the book and published the minutes of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, which discussed it.