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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

"Historically significant document by Still, a free-born Black man who became an author and abolitionist movement leader in Philadelphia, PA. The volume document the stories of escaped slaves, and remains "the only first-person account of Black activities on the Underground Railroad writte...

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Main Author: Still, William, 1821-1902, (Author)
Corporate Author: Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Contributors: Bensell, Edmund Birckhead, 1842- (Engraver)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Porter & Coates, 822, Chestnut Street, 1872.
Edition:first edition
Subjects and Genres:
Still, William, > 1821-1902, > depicted.
Still, William, > 1821-1902
Underground Railroad.
Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography.
Antislavery movements > United States.
Slavery > United States.
Abolitionists > Biography.
Abolitionists.
Antislavery movements.
Fugitive slaves.
Slavery.
Esclaves fugitifs > États-Unis.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Mouvements antiesclavagistes.
United States.
Biographies.
Engravings (prints).
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Summary: "Historically significant document by Still, a free-born Black man who became an author and abolitionist movement leader in Philadelphia, PA. The volume document the stories of escaped slaves, and remains "the only first-person account of Black activities on the Underground Railroad written and self-published by an African-America...William Still was a major contributor to the success of the Underground Railroad activities in Philadelphia and a part of Philadelphia's free Black community that played an essential role in the Underground Railroad. He personally provide room and board for many African Americans who escaped slavery and stopped in Philadelphia on their way to Canada. Through his work with the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery's Vigilance Committee, he raised funds to assist runaways and arrange their passage to the North. He was instrumental in financing several of Harriet Tubman's trips to the South to liberate enslaved Africans" (Turner, Diane D. "William Still's National Significance." Web blog post. William Still: African American Abolitionist. Temple University, n.d. 18 August, 2016)." --description from Lorne Bair Rare Books Inc., bookseller.
Item Description: "Sold only by subscription."--Title page.
Frontispiece portrait of William Still.
Physical Description: 4 unnumbered pages, 780 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Place of Publication: United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

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