The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narrative, Letters, Narrating the Hardships, Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the...
- ISBN-10
- 159232469X
- ISBN-13
- 9781592324699
- Series
- The Underground Railroad
- Category
- Abolitionists
- Pages
- 811
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Author
- William Still
Description
"A record of the escape of slaves from their captors who for years held them in bondage and committed the worst inhumanity man has ever experienced. The book chronicles the stores and methods of some 649 slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Still included his carefully compiled and detailed documentation about those that he had helped escape into the pages of 'The Underground Railroad records'." --
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