. The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom . PETEK STILL, THE KIDNAPPED AND cirAuirv , TWICE ESCAPED fltOM SLAVERY. Spf [I. :i7 SETH CONCKLIN. 37 the public in the Kidnapped and the Ransomed, being the personalrecollections of Peter Still and his wife Vina, after ibrty 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
. The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom . PETEK STILL, THE KIDNAPPED AND cirAuirv , TWICE ESCAPED fltOM SLAVERY. Spf [I. :i7 SETH CONCKLIN. 37 the public in the Kidnapped and the Ransomed, being the personalrecollections of Peter Still and his wife Vina, after ibrty 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 brouo-ht to light; all such had to be kept concealed in the breastsof tlie 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 declarati
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