Jane Swisshelm, Abolitionist and Nurse

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The nineteenth century abolitionist movement had many advocates in the Midwest region of the United States. This database is the autobiography of one ardent supporter of the abolition of slavery. Born into a strongly Methodist family, Jane Swisshelm started an abolitionist newspaper, advocated women's rights, and served as a nurse in the Civil War. Researchers will find vivid descriptions of her experiences living in Kentucky in the 1850s, working as a nurse in Pittsburgh, running a newspaper, and the conditions of the Union hospitals in which she worked during the war. To those attempting to understand the conditions of women in the Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century, this can be an informative database.

Sources Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon. Half a Century. Chicago: J.G. Swisshelm, 1880.

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