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African American records of the Gold Rush are rare, as are underground railroad accounts from those fleeing to freedom; yet here is the account of a self-taught escaped slave and underground railroad worker who also succumbed to the lure of ...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
conspiracy to kidnap William Craft from the United States Hotel in Boston on October 22, 1850. To protect Ellen Craft from such connivance, Susan Hilliard hid the slave in her Boston residence. Ellen began studying upholstery with a ...
... James Williams, Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad (San Francisco: Women's Union Print, 1873), 75. 57. James McKaye, The Mastership and Its Fruits: The Emancipated ...
... life and adventures of Zamba , an African Negro king ; and his experience in slavery in South Carolina . Written by ... Williams , James Life and adventures of James Williams , a fugitive slave , with a full description San of the ...
... Fugitive Slave Law allowed slave owners who had arrived before statehood to reclaim and even sell runaway slaves ... James Williams , Fugitive Slave in the Gold Rush : Life and Adventures of James Williams ( Lincoln , NE : University of ...
Sims,. Thomas. (b. ¡828). Fugitive slave and fugitive slave rescue case. In February ¡85¡, 23-year-old Thomas Sims escaped from slavery in Savannah, Georgia, and made his way by ship to Boston, Massachusetts. After Sims' whereabouts ...