. 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 . GRAPE ANNE LEWIS. See p. TiS. MRS. FRANCIS E. W. UAlilER Se« V 755-. JOllN EARNEST IN THE CAUSE. MAEIAXX, GRACE A., AND ELIZABETH B. LEWIS. 749 see a brother even in the evil-doer, and pity while condemning him,—theyeve
. 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 . GRAPE ANNE LEWIS. See p. TiS. MRS. FRANCIS E. W. UAlilER Se« V 755-. JOllN EARNEST IN THE CAUSE. MAEIAXX, GRACE A., AND ELIZABETH B. LEWIS. 749 see a brother even in the evil-doer, and pity while condemning him,—theyeven more intensely hated, while they feared, the actors in the outrage, anddespised the girl who had betrayed the victim. Ever after, any one of themcould be trusted to be faithful to the hunted fugitive, though an army of kid-nappers might surround her. Another of their early recollections was of a white handkerchief which wasto be waved from a back window, as a signal of danger, to a colored man atwork in a wood near by. And, all the while, the feelings aroused by suchevents were kept alive by little Anti-slavery poems, which they were wont tolearn by heart and recite in the evenings. Grace Anna, on her first visit toPhiladelphia, when nine years old, bought a copy of one of these, entitledZambos Story, pleased to recognize in it a favorite of her still earlierchildhood. By means like these they were unconsciously preparing t
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