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It is at this point in Barrett Browning’s life and career more than any other that she becomes a New Committed Voice. Having recently escaped the confines of her father’s home, in which she states the children were often driven to the ‘vices of slaves’, Barrett Browning is asserting the correlation between slavery and the unprivileged position of women. As Angela Leighton observes: The Runaway Slave is written by a runaway daughter. Exclusively from 1844 onwards Barrett Browning dedicated her poetry to exposing the political