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Excerpt from Thrice Through the Furnace: A Tale of the Times of the Iron Hoof The little work, now presented to the public was written the Autumn after the passage of the Fugitive Slave law. It was written in baste, and in the interval of another employment. It was put into the hands of a friend for publication at that time. Circumstances over which the Author had no control, prevented its immediate publication. I refer any one who desires to know the facts in the case to Mr. John H. Willard, of Pawtucket. It was written as a testimony against the Fugitive Slave Law. I wished that my feelings, concerning that law, should reach the ears of the people. I know that we overcome "by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony." I considered the mode here adopted, the surest method of access to the people. It was not till I had decided to publish it that I met with that wonderful book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Thus while my little bark lay hindered in port, God had launched forth a noble vessel on the chafed waters of the public mind. If any one thinks I have exaggerated the cruelties of slavery, let them read Theodore Weld's Testimony of a thousand witnesses; and see how the dreadful truth exceeds anything my pen has here portrayed! The characters are in their main, delineations from the life. The charity, the loveliness, the piety of Marian, are not Ideal - Sybil's character is drawn from one I know; and who, acquainted with Anti-Slavery life, has not seen Gilbert among the Fugitives? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the best and brightest of his generation." But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double life-the first as the prominent white geologist and writer Clarence King, and a second as the black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd. The fair, blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed across the color line, revealing his secret to his black common-law wife, Ada Copeland, only on his deathbed. In Passing Strange, noted historian Martha A. Sandweiss tells the dramatic, distinctively American tale of a family built along the fault lines of celebrity, class, and race- a story that spans the long century from Civil War to civil rights.