Complex sentence: Scholar Hollis Robbins demonstrated immediately that Crafts must have read prominent works of fiction such as "Bleak House" and argued that Crafts may have read a serialized version of Dickens's novel in Frederick Douglass's newspaper, which had a high circulation among runaway slaves.
Split into simpler sentences: Scholar Hollis Robbins demonstrated that Crafts must have read prominent works of fiction such as "Bleak House". He argued that Crafts may have read a serialized version of Dickens's novel in Frederick Douglass's newspaper, which had a high circulation among runaway slaves.