The Underground Railroad

William Still

• Editorial: Mint Editions
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781513266947
• Categoría: Literatura
• Categoría: Colecciones literarias norteamericanas

While working for the Underground Railroad and helped escaped slaves to safety, William Still kept meticulous records. These notes originally were used to help reconnect families and document history, but Still later used these records to create The Underground Railroad, telling the stories of the disenfranchised. Said to have helped nearly eight-hundred slaves, Still depicts their stories of heartbreak, narrow escapes, and oppression.

Not only was Still a conductor of the Underground Railroad, but also was the child of a woman who braved the unknown, fought for her own freedom, and escaped life as a slave. The Underground Railroad uses first-hand accounts of the harsh conditions of slavery, and the lengths slaves had to go to for freedom.

The Underground Railroad by William Still is a work of historical nonfiction meant for all. The collection of vivid, personal stories serves as an excellent education of antebellum America directly from one of its witnesses. The underground railroad was among the most selfless acts of activism, fueled by the kindness and compassion by Americans who wanted the best for their peers. Still's honest and raw gives readers direct access to the experiences of those who used the system and reclaimed their freedom. Witness the close encounters, joyful reunions, and incredible bravery of the slaves and activists that defended the American right of freedom for all.

Brought back into the light and revived with easy-to-read print, and an eye-catching design, William Still's The Underground Railroad is a reminder of both a heinous injustice of America's past and the triumph of the activism and bravery that overcame it.

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Índice

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Seth Concklin
• Underground Railroad Letters
• William Box Peel Jones
• Wesley Harris, alias Robert Jackson, Craven Matterson and Two Brothers
• Clarissa Davis
• Anthony Blow, alias Henry Levison
• Perry Johnson, of Elkton, Maryland
• Isaac Forman, William Davis and Willis Redick
• Joseph Henry Camp
• Sheridan Ford
• Joseph Kneeland, alias Joseph Hulson
• Ex-President Tyler’s Household Loses An Aristocratic “Article”
• Edward Morgan, Henry Johnson, James and Stephen Butler
• Henry Predo
• Mary Epps, alias Emma Brown, Joseph and Robert Robinson
• George Solomon, Daniel Neall, Benjamin R. Fletcher and Maria Dorsey
• Henry Box Brown
• Trial of the Emancipators of Col. J.H. Wheeler’s Slaves, Jane Johnson and her Two Little Boys
• The Arrivals of a Single Month
• A Slave Girl’s Narrative
• Arrival of Jackson, Isaac and Edmondson Turner from Petersburg
• Robert Brown, alias Thomas Jones
• Anthony Loney, alias William Armstead
• Cornelius Scott
• Samuel Williams, alias John Williams
• Barnaby Grigby, alias John Boyer, and Mary Elizabeth, his Wife; Frank Wanzer, alias Robert Scott; Emily Foster alias Ann Wood
• William Jordan, alias William Price
• Joseph Grant and John Speaks
• William N. Taylor
• Louisa Brown
• Jacob Waters and Alfred Goulden
• Arrival from Baltimore
• Several Arrivals from Different Places
• Arrival from Richmond
• Eight Arrivals
• Charles Thompson
• Blood Flowed Freely
• John Pettifoot
• Emanuel T. White
• The Escape of a Child Fourteen Months Old
• Escape of a Young Slave Mother
• Samuel W. Johnson
• Family from Baltimore
• Elijah Hilton
• Solomon Brown
• William Hogg, alias John Smith
• Two Female Passengers from Maryland
• Captain F. and the Mayor of Norfolk
• Arrivals from Different Places
• Fleeing Girl of Fifteen in Male Attire
• Five Years and One Month Secreted
• From Virginia, Maryland and Delaware
• Sam, Isaac, Perry, Charles and Green
• From Richmond and Norfolk, Va
• Four Arrivals
• From Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Washington, D.C. and South Carolina
• Charles Gilbert
• Liberty or Death
• Salt-Water Fugitive
• Samuel Green alias Wesley Kinnard
• An Irish Girl’s Devotion to Freedom
• “Sam” Nixon alias Dr. Thomas Bayne
• Sundry Arrivals
• Heavy Reward
• Slave-Trader Hall is Foiled
• The Protection of Slave Property in Virginia
• Escaping in a Chest
• Isaac Williams, Henry Banks, and Kit Nickless
• Arrival of Five from the Eastern Shore of Maryland
• Sundry Arrivals, About August 1st, 1855
• Deep Furrows on the Back
• Peter Mathews, alias Samuel Sparrows
• “Moses” Arrives with Six Passengers
• Escaped from “A Worthless Sot”
• William Butcher, alias Wm. T. Mtchell
• “White Enough To Pass”
• Eight and a Half Months Secreted
• Arthur Fowler, alias Benjamin Johnson
• Sundry Arrivals
• Sundry Arrivals about January 1st, 1855
• Slave-Holder in Maryland with Three Colored Wives
• Captain F. Arrives With Nine Passengers
• Owen and Otho Taylor’s Flight With Horses, etc
• Heavy Reward
• Capt. F. Arrives with Fourteen “Prime Articles” on Board
• Sundry Arrivals, Latter Part of December, 1855, and Beginning of January, 1856
• Part of the Arrivals in December, 1855
• The Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850
• The Slave Hunting Tragedy in Lancaster County, in September, 1851
• William and Ellen Craft
• Arrivals from Richmond
• Passengers from North Carolina, [By Schooner.]
• Thomas Clinton, Sauney Pry and Benjamin Ducket
• Arrivals in April, 1856
• Five from Georgetown Cross-Roads
• Passengers from Maryland
• Arrival from Maryland
• Arrival from Washington, D.C., &c., 1857
• Arrival from Unionville, 1857
• Arrival from Maryland, 1857
• Arrival from Cambridge, 1857
• Benjamin Ross, and his Wife Harriet
• Arrival from Virginia, 1857
• Arrival from Delaware, 1857
• Arrival from Alexandria, 1857
• Arrival from Unionville, 1857
• Arrival from New Orleans, 1857
• Arrival from Washington, D.C
• Arrival from Virginia, 1857
• Arrival from Maryland
• Arrival from Georgetown Cross Roads
• Arrival from Alexandria
• Arrival from Maryland
• Arrival from Norfolk, Va
• Arrival from Washington, D.C
• Four Able Bodied “Articles” in One Arrival, 1857
• Arrival from Arlington, Md., 1857
• Five Passengers, 1847
• Arrival from Howard County, Md., 1857
• Arrival from Prince George’s County, Md
• Arrival from Rappahannock County, 1857
• Arrival from North Carolina, 1857
• Alfred Hollon, George and Charles N. Rodgers
• Arrival from Kent County, 1857
• Arrival from Baltimore County, 1857
• Mary Cooper and Moses Armstead, 1857
• Arrival from near Washington, D.C
• Hon. L. McLane’s Property, Soon after his Death, Travels Via The Underground Rail Road—William Knight, Esq. Loses a Superior “Article.”
• Arrival from Harford County, 1857
• Arrival from Maryland, 1857
• Arrival from Norfolk, Va., 1857
• Arrival from Hooperville, Md., 1857
• Arrival from Maryland, 1857
• Arrival from Queen Ann County, 1858
• Arrival from Baltimore
• Arrived from Dunwoody County, 1858
• Arrived from Alexandria, Va., 1857
• Arrival from Maryland, 1858
• Arrival from Petersburg, 1858
• Arrival from Maryland
• Arrival of a Party of Six, 1858
• Arrival from Richmond, 1858
• Arrival from Richmond, 1858
• Arrival from Baltimore, 1858
• Arrival from Hightstown, 1858
• Arrival from Virginia, 1858
• Arrival from Bellair
• Arrival from Maryland, 1858
• Arrival from New Market, 1858
• Arrival from Virginia, 1858
• Arrival from Richmond, 1858
• Arrival from Norfolk, Va., 1858
• Arrival from near Baltimore, 1858
• Arrival from Virginia, 1858
• Arrival from Washington, 1858
• Arrival from Virginia, 1858
• Arrival from the Old Dominion
• Arrival from Delaware, 1858
• Arrival from Delaware, 1858
• Arrival from Maryland, 1858
• Arrival from North Carolina and Delaware
• Arrival from Maryland
• Arrival from Maryland
• Arrival from the District of Columbia, 1858
• Arrival from Honey Brook Township, 1858
• Arrival from Alexandria, Va., 1858
• Arrival from The Seat of Government
• Crossing the Bay in a Skiff
• Arrival from Kent County, Md., 1858
• Arrival from Washington, 1858
• Arrival from Cecil County, 1858
• Arrival from Georgetown, D.C., 1858
• Arrival from Sussex County, 1858
• Sundry Arrivals in 1859
• Arrival from Richmond, 1859
• Arrival from Delaware, 1858
• Arrival from Richmond, 1859
• Arrival from Maryland, 1859
• Sundry Arrivals, 1859
• Arrival from Maryland, 1859
• Arrival from Delaware, 1859
• Arrival from Virginia, 1859
• Sundry Arrivals from Maryland, 1859
• Arrival from Richmond, 1859
• Arrival from Maryland
• Arrival from Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia
• Sundry Arrivals from Maryland and Virginia
• Arrival from Seaford, 1859
• Arrival from Taps’ Neck, Md., 1859
• Arrival from Maryland, 1859
• Sundry Arrivals from Virginia, Maryland and Delaware
• Arrival from Different Points
• Sundry Arrivals from Maryland, 1860
• Arrival from Virginia, 1860
• Arrival from Baltimore, 1860
• Arrival from Maryland
• Arrival from Fredericksburg, 1860
• Sundry Arrivals from Maryland, 1860
• Crossing the Bay in a Batteau
• Arrival from Dorchester County, 1860
• Arrival from Maryland, 1860
• Twelve Months in the Woods, 1860
• Arrival from Maryland
• A Slave Catcher Caught in his Own Trap
• Arrival from Richmond, 1858
• Arrival from Richmond, 1859
• Arrival from Richmond
• “Aunt Hannah Moore”
• Kidnapping of Rachel and Elizabeth Parker—Murder of Joseph C. Miller, in 1851 and 1852
• Arrival from Virginia, 1854
• Arrival from Norfolk
• Arrival of Fifteen from Norfolk, Virginia
• The Case of Euphemia Williams
• Helpers and Sympathizers at Home and Abroad—Interesting Letters
• Pamphlet, and Letters
• Letters to the Writer
• Woman Escaping in a Box, 1857
• Organization of the Vigilance Committee
• Portraits and Sketches
• Abigail Goodwin
• Thomas Garrett
• Daniel Gibbons
• Lucretia Mott
• James Miller McKim
• William H. Furness, D.D
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Lewis Tappan
• Elijah F. Pennypacker
• 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
• A Note About the Author
• A Note from the Publisher