... the most relentless slaveholder to abandon at once a pursuit so monstrous and utterly hopeless as Wheeler's was. ... With the District Attorney, Wm.B. Mann, Esq., andhis Honor, Judge Kelley, thedefendants had no cause to complain.
The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage--and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER , THE LEADER OF THE LATE INSURRECTION IN SOUTHAMPTON , VA . AS FULLY AND VOLUNTARILY MADE TO THOMAS B. GRAY , To the prison where he was confined , and acknowledged by him to be when read bebee the Court of ...
Including real stories from the "Railroad," What Was the Underground Railroad? will capture young readers' hearts: there are close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and unending sacrifices slaves made for freedom.
Thompson's home, where most meetings occurred, stood at Ballard and Cross Streets on the northern side of Ypsilanti.18 One station, at the home of Elizabeth and (Andrew) Leonard Chase, operated from the 1840s to 1860.
Not every escaped slave was blessed with the eloquence of Frederick Douglass, who used his new-found freedom to become the supreme voice of the abolitionist movement. But every one of...
Describes the underground railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom.
A pioneer of the frontier, Samuel Patterson was born in Acworth, in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, and arrived in the West at age four with his parents. In 1825, he settled in a log cabin at 6525 Africa Road on Alum Creek in East ...
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strains, perfectly annihilated the “distinguished Colonel John H. Wheeler, United States Minister Plenipotentiary ... With the District Attorney, Wm. B. Mann, Esq., and his Honor, Judge Kelley, the defendants had no cause to complain.
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