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Ida May

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In Mary Hayden Green Pike
Her first novel, Ida May (1854), was published under the pseudonym Mary Langdon. A melodramatic tale of a child of wealthy white parents who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, the book was an immediate success. Published two years after Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ida May sold some 60,000…
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