Half a Century
Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
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Description
Jane Grey Swisshelm called her memoir Half a Century, and published it in 1880. She had been a famed newspaper editor and abolitionist. Her preface takes up a charge she wants to correct. The charge: the anti-slavery struggle, which ended in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, sprang from infidelity. It was, men said, a triumph of skepticism over Christianity. The inside history of those who fought, she argues, proves the reverse.
Most of those fighters had died without leaving a record of their schooling and motives, so the duty fell on the few who remained. Swisshelm tells of her own hard youth, her newspapers, her fights with clergy and politicians, and her work in Washington hospitals in the Civil War. The voice is sharp, funny, and fearless. The book is a first-hand life of the reform press by one of its boldest editors.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 529 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |