. 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 . CHARLES WISE, TREASURER. EDWIN H. COATES. MEMBERS OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE. ARRIVAL FR03I UNIONVILLE, 1857. 401 ARKIVAL FROM UNIONVILLE, 1857. CAROLINE ALDRIDGE AND JOHN WOOD. Caroline was a stout, light-complexioned, healthy-look
. 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 . CHARLES WISE, TREASURER. EDWIN H. COATES. MEMBERS OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE. ARRIVAL FR03I UNIONVILLE, 1857. 401 ARKIVAL FROM UNIONVILLE, 1857. CAROLINE ALDRIDGE AND JOHN WOOD. Caroline was a stout, light-complexioned, healthy-looking young womanof twenty-three years of age. She fled from Thornton Poole, of Unionville,Md. She gave her master the character of being a very mean man;with a wife meaner still. I consider them mean in every respect, saidCaroline. No great while before she escaped, one of her brothers and a sisterhad been sent to the Southern market. Recently she had been apprizedthat herself and a younger brother would have to go the same dreadfulroad. She therefore consulted with the brother and a particular youngfriend, to whom she was engaged, whicli resulted in the departure of allthree of them. Though the ordinary steps relative to marriage, as far asslaves were allowed, had been complied with, nevertheless on the road toCanada, they availed themselves of the more perf
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