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Cover of George Lippard’s The Quaker City, Parts 5 and 7, Philadelphia, PA, 1845.
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Credit: Courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

First published in weekly installments in 1844, The Quaker City sold 60,000 copies the year of its release, a one-year sales record for an American novel not topped until Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared in 1852.

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