The Underground Railroad (Complete Collection). William Still

The Underground Railroad (Complete Collection) - William Still


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KIDNAPPING OF RACHEL AND ELIZABETH PARKER — MURDER OF JOSEPH C. MILLER IN 1851 AND 1852

       ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1854 TUCKER WHITE

       ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK MARY MILLBURN, alias LOUISA F. JONES, ESCAPED IN MALE ATTIRE

       ARRIVAL OF FIFTEEN FROM NORFOLK, VIRGINIA PER SCHOONER — TWICE SEARCHED — LANDED AT LEAGUE ISLAND ISAAC FORMAN, HENRY WILLIAMS, WILLIAM SEYMOUR, HARRIET TAYLOR, MARY BIRD, MRS. LEWEY, SARAH SAUNDERS, SOPHIA GRAY, HENRY GRAY, MARY GRAY, WINFIELD SCOTT, and three children

       THE CASE OF EUPHEMIA WILLIAMS, CLAIMED AS A FUGITIVE SLAVE UNDER THE FUGITIVE SLAVE-LAW AFTER HAVING LIVED IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS

       HELPERS AND SYMPATHIZERS AT HOME AND ABROAD — INTERESTING LETTERS

       PAMPHLET, AND LETTERS FROM MRS. ANNA H. RICHARDSON, OF NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND TO THE FRIENDS OF THE SLAVE

       LETTERS TO THE WRITER

       WOMAN ESCAPING IN A BOX, 1857 SHE WAS SPEECHLESS

       ORGANIZATION OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE MEETING TO FORM A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE

       PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES

       ESTHER MOORE

       ABIGAIL GOODWIN

       FAITHFUL WORKERS IN THE CAUSE

       THOMAS GARRETT

       THE TRIAL OF THE CASES, 1848

       FOUR OF GOD'S POOR

       FOUR FEMALES ON BOARD

       DANIEL GIBBONS

       LUCRETIA MOTT

       JAMES MILLER McKIM

       WILLIAM H. FURNESS, D.D

       WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

       LEWIS TAPPAN

       ELIJAH F. PENNYPACKER

       STATION MASTERS ON THE ROAD

       WILLIAM WRIGHT

       DR. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL

       THOMAS SHIPLEY

       ROBERT PURVIS

       JOHN HUNN

       SAMUEL RHOADS

       GEORGE CORSON

       CHARLES D. CLEVELAND

       WILLIAM WHIPPER

       ISAAC T. HOPPER

       SAMUEL D. BURRIS,

       MARIANN, GRACE ANNA, AND ELIZABETH R. LEWIS

       CUNNINGHAM'S RACHE

       FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

      PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION

       Table of Contents

      Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded, through the aid of my father, to reach a free State. Here life had to be begun anew. The old familiar slave names had to be changed, and others, for prudential reasons, had to be found. This was not hard work. However, hardly months had passed ere the keen scent of the slave-hunters had trailed them to where they had fancied themselves secure. In those days all power was in the hands of the oppressor, and the capture of a slave mother and her children was attended with no great difficulty other than the crushing of freedom in the breast of the victims. Without judge or jury, all were hurried back to wear the yoke again. But back this mother was resolved never to stay. She only wanted another opportunity to again strike for freedom. In a few months after being carried back, with only two of her little ones, she took her heart in her hand and her babes in her arms, and this trial was a success. Freedom was gained, although not without the sad loss of her two older children, whom she had to leave behind. Mother and father were again reunited in freedom, while two of their little boys were in slavery. What to do for them other than weep and pray, were questions unanswerable. For over forty years the mother's heart never knew what it was to be free from anxiety about her lost boys. But no tidings came in answer to her many prayers, until one of them, to the great astonishment of his relatives, turned up in Philadelphia, nearly fifty years of age, seeking his long-lost parents. Being directed to the Anti-Slavery Office for instructions as to the best plan to adopt to find out the whereabouts of his parents, fortunately he fell into the hands of his own brother, the writer, whom he had never heard of before, much less seen or known. And here began revelations connected with this marvellous coincidence, which influenced me, for years previous to Emancipation, to preserve the matter found in the pages of this humble volume.

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