This was the title of the first novel written by an American and published in America.
Sheppard Lee
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Hobomok
The Power of Sympathy
The Power of Sympathy. Written by William Hill Brown and published in Boston in 1789, it was a cautionary tale, described in Boston’s Herald of Freedom newspaper as "intended to enforce attention to female education, and to represent the fatal consequences of Seduction."