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Author Still, William, 1821-1902, author.

Title The Underground Railroad records : narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom / William Still ; edited by Quincy T. Mills ; introduction by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Publisher New York : Modern Library, [2019]

ISBN 9781984855053 paperback
1984855050 paperback



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Description xi, 362 pages ; 21 cm
Note(S) Originally published in 1872 by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia.
Contents Foreword / Quincy T. Mills ; Introduction / Ta-Nebisi Coates. Underground Railroad letters ; Arrived per Erricson Line of steamers, wrapped in straw and boxed up, April 1859: William Peel, alias of William Box Peel Jones ; Wesley Harris, Alias Robert Jackson, and the Matterson brothers ; Clarissa Davis: Arrived dressed in male attire ; Isaac Forman, William Davis, and Willis Redick: Hearts full of joy for freedom-very anxious for wives in slavery Ex-President Tyler's household loses an aristocratic "article" ; William Still ; Edward Morgan, Henry Johnson, James and Stephen Butler ; Henry Predo: Broke fail, jumped out of the window and made his escape ; A slave mother loses her speech at the sale of her child - Bob escapes from his master, a trader, with $1500 in North Carolina money ; Mary Epps, Alias Emma Brown -Joseph and Robert Robinson ; Arrived by Adams Express ; Henry Box Brown -- Trial of the emancipators of Col. J.H. Wheeler's slaves, Jane Johnson and her two little boys. Cordelia Loney, slave of Mrs. Joseph Cabell (widow of the late Hon. Joseph Cabell, of Va.), of Fredericksburg, Va. - Cordelia's escape from her mistress in Philadelphia / A slave girl's narrative ; Touching scene on meeting their old blind father at the U.G.R.R. Depot. Letters and warning to slaveholders / Arrival of Jackson, Isaac and Edmondson Turner from Petersburg ; Crossing the river on horseback in the night / Robert Crown. alias Thomas Jones ; Barnaby Grigby, Alias John Boyer, and Mary Elizabeth, his wife; Frank Wanzer, alias Robert Scott; Emily Foster, alias Ann Wood (Two others who started with them were captured) ; William Jordon, alias William Price -- Two passengers on the underground rail road, via Liverpool / Joseph Grant and John Speaks -- Underground railroad records. One hundred dollars reward / William N. Taylor ; Arrival from Richmond / Jerimiah W. Smith and wife Julia ; Blood flowed freely / Abram Galloway and Richard Eden, two passengers secreted in a vessel loaded with spirits or turpentine, shrouds prepared to prevent being smoked to death ; Left her little baby-boy, little girl and husband behind / Escape of a young slave mother ; Arrival from the "daily dispatch" office / Samuel W. Johnson ; Two female passengers from Maryland ; Twenty-one passengers secreted in a boat, November, 1855 / Captain F. and teh Mayor of Norfolk ; Arrivals from different places / Matilda Mahoney - Dr. F.W Pennington's brother and sons captured and carried back ; "Fleeing girl of fifteen", in male attire / Professors H. and T. offer their services - Captains B. also are enlisted - slave-trader grasping tightly his prey, but She is rescued - Long conflict, but great triumph - arrival on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1855 ; Fleeing from Davis a Negro trader, secreted under a hotel, up a tree, under a floor, in a thicket, on a steamer / Charles Gilbert ; Salt-Water fugitive / William Still ; Ten years in the penitentiary for having a copy of Uncle Tom's cabin / Samuel Green alias Wesley Kinnard August 28th, 1854 ; In love with a slave - Gets him off to Canada - Follows him - marriage and C / An Irish girl's devotion to freedom ; Escape of a dentist on the U.G.R.R. - He is taken for and impostor - elected a member of city council in New Bedford - studying medicine, etc / "Sam" Nixon alias Dr. Thomas Bayne ; Slave-trader hall is foiled / Robert McCoy alias William Donar ; Protection of slave property in Virginia / a Bill providing additional protection for the slave property of citizens of this Commonwealth ; Escaping in a chest ; Months in a cave, - shot by slave-hunters / Isaac William, Henry Banks, and Kit Nickless ; I might as well be in the penitentiary & C / "Pete Matthews," alias Samuel Sparrows ; "Moses" arrives with six passengers / " Not allowed to seek a master;"--"Very devilish;" --Father "leaves two little sons;" --"Used hard;" -- "Feared falling into the hands of young heirs," Etc. John Chase, alias Daniel Floyd; Benjamin Ross, alias James Stewart; Henry Ross
Audience 1270L Lexile
Subject(S) 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.
Biographies.
Added Name(S) Mills, Quincy T., 1975- editor.
ISBN 9781984855053 paperback
1984855050 paperback