Harriet Beecher Stowe 
Dred 
A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It, was important for her own interests that Mrs. Stowe should secure a copyright for the book in England, where a great audience awaited her, and she made a journey abroad in the early summer of 1856 with this end particularly in View. She had already arranged with Messrs. Sampson Low co. For its republication, and she wrote for the English edition a special preface which states concisely the aim she had in View in writing Dred.