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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tri(158)

Author:Kate Moore

3“the sun, moon”: EP, The Exposure on Board the Atlantic & Pacific Car of Emancipation for the Slaves of Old Columbia, Engineered by the Lightning Express, or Christianity & Calvinism Compared. With an Appeal to the Government to Emancipate the Slaves of the Marriage Union (Chicago, 1864), 5 (hereafter cited as TE)。

4“jewels”: Ibid.

5“train of stars”: EP, GD, 2:95.

6“happy faces”: Ibid., 1:219.

7“always rejoicing”: Ibid., 2:336.

8“anxious foreboding”: EP, PHL, 36.

9“noiselessly searching”: Ibid., 42.

10“When I was”: EP, GD, 1:135.

11“woman’s chief office”: Ibid., 2:86.

12“natural for the”: Ibid., 2:82.

13“green”: Ibid., 1:347.

14“dusty”: Ibid., 2:17.

15“did not seem”: Ibid., 2:190.

16“to please”: Ibid., 4:68.

17“with all the”: EP, PHL, 60.

18“to be a”: EP, ibid., 63.

19“To make him”: EP, GD, 2:28.

20“That’s all I”: Ibid., 1:352.

21“dull”: Theophilus Packard (TP), Theophilus Packard’s diary, 51, November 26, 1829, Barbara Sapinsley Papers, Oskar Diethelm Library, DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York (hereafter cited as TPD)。

22“This Sabbath is”: Ibid., 47 (March 1, 1829)。

23“cheerless”: EP, GD, 2:85.

24“The polar regions”: Ibid., 2:66.

25“totally indifferent”: Ibid., 2:23.

26“not know how”: EP, PHL, 63.

27“blighting, love strangling”: Ibid., 64–65.

28“Wives are not”: EP, GD, 1:320.

29“a woman has” and following quotation: EP, MPE, 78.

30“a most rare”: Dr. Andrew McFarland (AM), letter to TP, August 11, 1860, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.

31“jealousy”: EP, MPE, 80.

32“stung to the”: EP, GD, 2:328.

33“My wife was”: TP, TPD, 77 (1856)。

34“I, though a”: EP, TE, 112.

35“I have got”: EP, GD, 1:135.

36“wives, obey your”: Eph. 5:22 (Worldwide English New Testament)。 EP describes TP quoting this verse repeatedly to her in GD, 4:119.

37“with equal justice”: EP, TE, 113.

38“sad reason to”: EP quoting TP’s letters to her relatives, MPE, 78.

39“Action is the”: EP, GD, 2:248.

40“woman’s mind”: Ibid., 2:59.

41“No man shall”: Ibid., 2:41.

42“used to tell” and following quotation: Ibid., 4:133–34.

43“wrong by nature”: TP, TPD, 72 (1844)。

44“Be your own”: EP, GD, 1:278.

45“irreligious influence”: TP, TPD, 41 (“Wife’s Insanity—1860”)。

46“unspeakable grief”: Ibid.

47“good talking times”: EP, PHL, 119.

48“Laughing!”: TP, quoted in GD, 1:220.

49“assumed a tangible” and following quotation: EP, PHL, 42.

50“[I] felt so”: EP, GD, 2:179.

51“I ask you”: EP, “Rights of Private Judgment,” in PHL, 22.

52“an irresistible magnetism”: Sophia Olsen (SO), “Mrs. Olsen’s Narrative of Her One Year’s Imprisonment, at Jacksonville Insane Asylum” (hereafter cited as MO), 72, in PHL, page 426 in PDF.

53“unusual timidity”: TPD, 6, August 1818.

54“I am willing” and following quotations: PHL, 17.

55“I had rather”: EP, MPE, 74.

56“to act the”: Ibid., 5.

57“I do not”: EP, TE, 113.

58“I shall put”: TP, quoted in EP, GD, 1:134.

59“fugitive lunatics”: New York Herald, 1850, quoted in Leslie Ann Harper, “‘They Had No Key That Would Fit My Mouth’: Women’s Struggles with Cultural Constructions of Madness in Victorian and Modern England and America” (PhD diss., University of Louisville, 2014), 70, https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/576.

60“Can [a woman]”: EP, MPE, 63.

61“the result of”: TP, in EP, PHL, 22.

62“attack of derangement” and following quotations: TP, “An Account of the Insanity Case of Mrs. E. P. W. Packard of Manteno, Illinois,” Gazette and Courier, April 4, 1864.