. The underground rail road [electronic resource]: 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 KIDNAPPER AND CHARITY STTLL, TWICE ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY. See p. 3T SETH COXCKLLX. 37 the public in the Kidnapped and the Ransomed, being the personalrecollections of Peter Still
. The underground rail road [electronic resource]: 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 KIDNAPPER AND CHARITY STTLL, TWICE ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY. See p. 3T SETH COXCKLLX. 37 the public in the Kidnapped and the Ransomed, being the personalrecollections of Peter Still and his wife Vina, after forty years of ,-laveryby Mrs. Kate E}. R. Pickard; with an introduction by Rev. Samuel J. May,and an appendix by William H. Furness, D. D., in lSolj. But, of course,it was not prudent or safe, in the days of Slavery, to publish such facts a*are 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 separation: 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 of
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