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A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF
ELIZABETH T. STONE,
AND OF HER PERSECUTIONS,
WITH AN APPENDIX
OF HER
TREATMENT AND SUFFERINGS
WHILE IN THE
CHARLESTOWN McLEAN ASSYLUM,
WHERE SHE WAS CONFINED UNDER THE
Pretence of Insanity.
1842:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.
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| PREFACE. | 3 |
| REMARKS. | 33 |
| CLOSING REMARKS TO CHRISTIANS. | 37 |
| ERRATA. | 42 |
PREFACE.
Feeling that the public is very much deceived concerning thetreatment and situation of a poor afflicted class of the human family,who are placed in the McLean Assylum at Charlestown, by theirrelatives, and are left in the hands of strangers, subjected to the treatmentof those whose hearts are hardened by being long accustomedto human suffering, and who are ignorant and unqualified, I will exposethis matter to the public, in behalf of the afflicted, in connectionwith the awful, brutal outrage that has been committed uponme in consequence of indisposition resulting from hard labor and persecution,so the public may be warned against placing their friendsthere, especially if they would not have them ill-treated or sufferunnecessarily.
First, I shall give a short sketch of my life down to the time whenI was carried to the Hospital; then an account of the CRIME in connectionwith the treatment I received there, until I was taken out.I feel that this should particularly interest the christian world; butwhether it is believed or not, I am determined to publish it, that thepeople of God may take care of their own people in time of persecutionat the expense of one's life, whether father, mother, brother, orsister step in between. The unconverted do not understand spirituality,therefore a weak, persecuted christian should not be consignedto their hands. If others who have suffered this cruelty beforeme (as Dr. Fox says that both male and female christians have beendestroyed there before) had published and exposed the