Famous Quotes | A woman with her two children...

A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it. - Jane Grey Swisshelm
Attribution: Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884), U.S. journalist, author, crusader. Half A Century, pp. 148-49, Jansen, McClurg and Company, Chicago (1880). On Washington slave trade.

Categories: Author, Crusader, Government, Hypocrisy, Journalist, Slavery

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