Half a Century 


by Jane Qrey Swbuhelm 



A LlBRlVoX FREE AUDIOBOOK READ BY PAMELA NAGAMI 


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In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery 
debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of that year, the 
outspoken abolitionist, feminist, and journalist, Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815- 
1884) unleashed a congressional sex scandal. Frustrated by what she saw 
as the Massachusetts senator's surrender to the Southern Slave Power, she 
published an article alleging Webster's marital infidelities with women of 
color. As a result of the media storm that followed, Swisshelm lost her job at 
the New York Tribune. This is but one of the many episodes found in her 
1880 autobiography, "Half a Century," which is a narrative of the frontier, of 
the fight against slavery, and of Swisshelm's fearless, compassionate, and 
innovative work as a surgical nurse treating Union soldiers who had suffered 
the most terrible wounds of war. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.) 


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Read by Pamela Nagami. Total running time: 10:20:01 


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