 However, in her introduction she wrote...

Ramik cleared her of breaking the law of the land/time (copyright infringement/piracy), not of plagiarism in the academic sense.In 1911, more than 70 years before charges of plagiarism, White wrote in the introduction to "The Great Controversy" her reason for quoting, in some cases without giving due credit, certain historians whose "statements affords a ready and forcible presentation on the subject.