The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.Still, William
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The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.
Still, William
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Underground Railroad
EDWARD MORGAN, HENRY JOHNSON, JAMES AND STEPHEN BUTLER. "Two
Thousand Dollars Reward" offered.
HENRY PREDO Daniel Hughes, Thomas Elliott, and five others
betrayed into Dover Jail.
MARY EPPS ALIAS EMMA BROWN, JOSEPH AND ROBERT ROBINSON. A Slave
Mother Loses her Speech at the Sale of her Child ... Bob Escapes
from his Master, a Trader, with Fifteen Hundred Dollars in North
Carolina Money.
GEORGE SOLOMON, DANIEL NEALL, BENJAMIN R. FLETCHER AND MARIA
DORSEY.
HENRY BOX BROWN Arrived by Adams Express.
TRIAL OF THE EMANCIPATORS OF COL. J.H. WHEELER'S SLAVES, JANE
JOHNSON AND HER TWO LITTLE BOYS.
THE ARRIVALS OF A SINGLE MONTH. Sixty Passengers came in one
Month--Twenty-eight in one Arrival--Great Panic and Indignation
Meeting--Interesting Correspondence from Masters and Fugitives.
A SLAVE GIRL'S NARRATIVE. Cordelia Loney, Slave of Mrs. Joseph
Cahell, (widow of the late Hon. Joseph Cahell, of
Virginia)--Cordelia's Escape from her Mistress in Philadelphia.
ARRIVAL OF JACKSON, ISAAC AND EDMONDSON TURNER FROM PETERSBURG.
Touching Scene on Meeting their Old Blind Father at the U.G.R.R.
Depot.
ROBERT BROWN ALIAS THOMAS JONES. Crossing the River on Horseback
in the Night.
ANTHONY LONEY ALIAS WILLIAM ARMSTEAD AND CORNELIUS SCOTT.
SAMUEL WILLIAMS ALIAS JOHN WILLIAMS.
BARNABY GRIGBY ALIAS JOHN BOYER, AND MARY ELIZABETH HIS WIFE,
FRANK WANZER ALIAS ROBERT SCOTT, EMILY FOSTER ALIAS ANN WOOD.
WILLIAM JORDAN ALIAS WILLIAM PRICE.
JOSEPH GRANT AND JOHN SPEAKS. Two Passengers _viâ_ Liverpool.
WILLIAM N. TAYLOR. "One Hundred Dollars Reward".
LOUISA BROWN, JACOB WATERS, AND ALFRED GOULDEN.
ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE. Jefferson Pipkins alias David Jones,
Louisa Pipkins, Elizabeth Brit, Harriet Brown, alias Jane
Wooton, Gracy Murry alias Sophia Sims, Edward Williams _alias_
Henry Johnson, Charles Lee alias Thomas Bushier.
SEVERAL ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES. Henry Anderson, Charles
and Margaret Congo, Chaskey Brown, William Henry Washington,
James Alfred Frisley, Charles Henry Salter, Stephen Taylor,
Charles Brown, Charles H. Hollis, Luther Dorsey.
ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND. Jeremiah W. Smith and wife Julia.
EIGHT ARRIVALS. James Massey, Perry Henry Trusty, George Rhoads,
James Rhoads, George Washington, Sarah Elizabeth Rhoads, and
Child, Mary Elizabeth Stephenson.
CHARLES THOMPSON. Carrier of "The National American".
BLOOD FLOWED FREELY. Abram Galloway and Richard Eden--Secreted
in a Vessel Loaded with Spirits of Turpentine--Shrouds Prepared
to Prevent being Smoked to Death--Abram a Soldier under Father
Abraham--Senator of North Carolina.
JOHN PETTIFOOT. "One Hundred Dollars Reward" Offered--McHenry
and McCulloch Anxious About John.
EMANUEL T. WHITE. "Would rather Fight than Eat".
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