tailieunhanh - The UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A RECORD OF FACTS, AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE, LETTERS

For many years connected with the Anti-Slavery Office in Philidelphia, and Chairman, of the Acting Vigilent Committee of the Philadelphia Branch of the Underground Rail Road. Illustrated with 70 fine Engravings by Bensell, Schell and others, and Portraits from Photographs from Life. | The UNDERGROUND RAILROAD A RECORD OF FACTS AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE LETTERS C. Narrating the Hardships Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles OF THE Slaves in their efforts of 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. BY WILLIAM STILL For many years connected with the Anti-Slavery Office in Philidelphia and Chairman of the Acting Vigilent Committee of the Philadelphia Branch of the Underground Rail Road. Illustrated with 70 fine Engravings by Bensell Schell and others and Portraits from Photographs from Life. Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant that has escaped from his master unto thee. Deut. xxiii. 16. SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. PHILADELPHIA PORTER COATES 822 CHESTNUT STREET. 1872. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1871 by . STILL In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. W. Still PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION. 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