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The underground railroad : authentic narratives and first-hand accounts
Title:
The underground railroad : authentic narratives and first-hand accounts
Author:
Still, William, 1821-1902.

Finseth, Ian Frederick.
ISBN:
9780486455532
Uniform Title:
Underground Railroad. Selections
Publication Information:
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, c2007.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 273 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
General Note:
"This Dover edition, first published in 2007, is a new compilation of selections from The underground rail road ... published by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, 1872"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Seth Concklin -- Underground railroad letters -- William Peel -- Wesley Harris -- Clarissa Davis -- Anthony Blow -- Perry Johnson -- Ex-President Tyler's household -- Edward Morgan, Henry Johnson, James and Stephen Butler -- Henry Predo -- Mary Epps, alias Emma Brown, Joseph and Robert Robinson -- Henry Box Brown -- Trial of the emancipators -- A slave girl's narrative -- Robert Brown -- Barnaby Grigby and his wife: Frank Wanzer; Emily Foster -- William Jordon -- Charles Thompson -- Blood flowed freely -- Captain F. and the mayor of Norfolk -- Four arrivals -- Charles Gilbert -- Samuel Green -- An Irish girl's devotion to freedom -- "Sam" Nixon -- The protection of slave property in Virginia -- Escaping in a chest -- Isaac Williams, Henry Banks, Kit Nickless -- "Pete Matthews" -- "Moses" arrives with six passengers -- "White enough to pass" -- Sundry arrivals -- Slave-holder in Maryland with three colored wives -- The Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850 -- The slave-hunting tragedy -- The law of treason, as laid down by Judge Kane -- William and Ellen Craft -- Arrival from Unionville, 1857 -- Arrival from Maryland, 1857 -- Arrival from Cambridge, 1857 -- Arrival from New Orleans, 1857 -- Arrival from Virginia, 1857 -- Arrival from Maryland -- Arrival from Howard Co., Md., 1957 -- Properties of Hon. L. McLane and Wm. Knight, Esq. -- Arrival from Hightstown, 1858 -- Arrival from Virginia, 1858 -- Arrival from Virginia, 1858; from the Old Dominion -- Arrival from Delaware, 1858 -- Crossing the bay in a skiff -- Arrival from Delaware, 1858 -- Arrival from Richmond, 1859 -- Arrival from Maryland, 1859 -- Sundry arrivals from Virginia, Maryland and Delaware -- Crossing the bay in a batteau -- Arrival from Dorchester Co., 1860 -- "Aunt Hannah Moore" -- Woman escaping in a box, 1857 -- Organization of the Vigilance Committee.
Subject:
Underground Railroad.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.