The Underground Railroad: The Underground Railroad Records
- ISBN-10
- 1722202505
- ISBN-13
- 9781722202507
- Series
- The Underground Railroad
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-07-02
- Author
- William Still
Description
The Underground Railroad by William Still. William Still (October 7, 1821 - July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, conductor on the Underground Railroad, businessman, writer, historian and civil rights activist. Often called "The Father of the Underground Railroad", Still helped as many as 800 slaves escape to freedom. After the war, he remained an important businessman and philanthropist, as well as used his meticulous records to write an account of the underground system and the experiences of many refugee slaves, entitled The Underground Railroad Records (1872). The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. 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.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2023-05-30
- - pages
- Paperback
- -
-
- 2021-10-21
- 30 pages
- Paperback
- -
Similar books
-
The Underground Railroad: A Novel
By Colson WhiteheadThe 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 Underground Railroad: A Primary Source History of the Journey to Freedom
By Philip WolnyTHE 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 ...
-
What Was the Underground Railroad?
By Who HQ, Yona Zeldis McDonoughIncluding 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.
-
The Underground Railroad in Michigan
By Carol E. MullThompson'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.
-
The Underground Railroad
By Ann HeinrichsDescribes the underground railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom.
-
The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations
By Mary Ellen SnodgrassA 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 ...
-
The Underground Railroad: Path to Freedom
By Carole MarshThe 22-book American Milestone series is featured as "Retailers Recommended Fabulous Products" in the August 2012 edition of Educational Dealer magazine.
-
Hippocrene Guide to the Underground Railroad
By Charles L. Blockson"They were often running with nothing to call their own and a price on their heads to a place in the North known only as the "promised land"; they were...
-
The Underground Railroad
By Raymond BialPortrays the activities of the Underground Railroad in the years prior to the Civil War, and documents the routes, lives, hardships, and accomplishments of the "conductors" and their "passengers," the escaped slaves.
-
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
By Ann PetryA New York Times Outstanding Book for young adult readers, this biography of the famed Underground Railroad abolitionist is a lesson in valor and justice. Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman knew the thirst for freedom.