Epigraph
“Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them.”
Dedication
DEDICATED
TO
JOSEPHINE E. BUTLER,
PROPHETESS OF THE TRUTH IN CHRIST JESUS; LOVER OF HOLY JUSTICE;
FRIEND OF OUTCAST WOMEN; LEADER OF “THE NEW ABOLITIONISTS”;
WHOM GOD HATH ANOINTED WITH HIS OWN PECULIAR JOY.
BECAUSE, IN THE SPIRIT OF HER MASTER, SHE HATH