. The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author : together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road . PETER STILL, THE KIDNAPPED AND CIIAKITV STILL, TWICE KSCAlED I UOM SLAVERY. Sec [l. :{ 8ETH CONCKLIN. 37 the public in the Kidnapped and the Eansomed/ being the personalrecollections of Peter Still and his wife Vina, a
. The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author : together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road . PETER STILL, THE KIDNAPPED AND CIIAKITV STILL, TWICE KSCAlED I UOM SLAVERY. Sec [l. :{ 8ETH CONCKLIN. 37 the public in the Kidnapped and the Eansomed/ being the personalrecollections of Peter Still and his wife Vina, after forty years of slavery,by Mrs. Kate E. R. Pickard; with an introduction by Rev. Samuel J. May,and an appendix by William H. Furness, D. D., in 1856. But, of course,it was not prudent or safe, in the days of Slavery, to publish such facts asare now brought to light; all such had to be kept concealed in the breastsof the fugitives and their friends. The following brief sketch, touching the separation of Peter and hismother, will fitly illustrate this point, and at the same time explain certainmysteries which have been hitherto kept hidden— THE SEPAEATION. With regard to Peters separation from his mother, when a little boy, infew words, the facts were these: His parents. Levin and Sidney, were bothslaves on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I will die before I submit tothe yoke, was the declaration o
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