AND HIS TIMES;

OR,

SKETCHES OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
IN AMERICA,

AND OF

THE MAN WHO WAS ITS FOUNDER AND MORAL LEADER

BY OLIVER JOHNSON.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

JOHN G. WHITTIER.

NEW, REVISED, AND ENLARGED EDITION.

O, my brethren! I have told

Most bitter truth, but without bitterness.-COLERIDGE.

BOSTON:

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1881.

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Copyright, 1879,
By B. B. RUSSELL & CO.

Copyright, 1881,

By OLIVER JOHNSON.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.

To the

SURVIVING HEROES

OF THE

AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY STRUGGLE,

IN WHATEVER FIELD OR BY WHATEVER INSTRUMENTALITIES

THEY CONSCIENTIOUSLY LABORED

FOR THE

DELIVERANCE OF THE LAND FROM THE CRIME AND CURSE
OF HUMAN BONDAGE,

This Volume

IS FRATERNALLY INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOR..