HALF A CENTURY.

BY

JANE GREY SWISSHELM.


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"God so willed:
Mankind is ignorant! a man am I:
Call ignorance my sorrow, not my sin!"

"O, still as ever friends are they
Who, in the interest of outraged truth
Deprecate such rough handling of a lie!"

ROBERT BROWNING.


1880.




PREFACE.


It has been assumed, and is generally believed, that the Anti-slavery