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Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
A secret network of safe houses, committees and guides that stretched well below the Mason-Dixon Line into the brutal slave states of the American South, the Underground Railroad remains one of the most impressive and well-organised resistance movements in modern history. It facilitated the escape of over 30,000 slave passengers through America and into Canada during its peak years of 1850-60, and, in total, an estimated 100,000 slaves found their freedom through the network.
Abridged from William Stills The Underground Railroad Records - an epic historical document that chronicles the first-hand stories of American slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad - Passengers tells of the secret methods, risks and covert sacrifices that were made to liberate so many from slavery. From tales of men murdered in cold blood for their part in helping assist runaways and terrifyingly tense descriptions of stowaways and dramatic escape plans, to stories of families reunited and the moments of absurdity that the Underground Railroad forced its passengers to sometimes endure, Stills narratives testify to the humanity of this vast enterprise.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM TA-NEHISI COATES, AUTHOR OF THE WATER DANCER
ABRIDGED FROM WILLIAM STILLS THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD RECORDS
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- WILLIAM PEEL, ALIAS WILLIAM BOX PEEL JONES :
Arrived Per Erricson Line of Steamers, Wrapped in Straw and Boxed Up, April, 1859. - CLARISSA DAVIS :
Arrived Dressed in Male Attire - ISAAC FORMAN, WILLIAM DAVIS, AND WILLIS REDICK :
Hearts Full of Joy for FreedomVery anxious for Wives in Slavery - HENRY PREDO :
Broke Jail, Jumped out of the Window and Made His Escape - MARY EPPS, ALIAS EMMA BROWNJOSEPH AND ROBERT ROBINSON :
A Slave Mother Loses her Speech at the Sale of her ChildBob Escapes from his Master, a Trader, with $1500 in North Carolina Money - HENRY BOX BROWN :
Arrived by Adams Express - A SLAVE GIRLS NARRATIVE :
Cordelia Loney, Slave of Mrs. Joseph Cahell (Widow of the Late Hon. Joseph Cahell, of Va.), of Fredericksburg, Va.Cordelias 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. Letters and Warning to Slaveholders - ROBERT BROWN, ALIAS THOMAS JONES :
Crossing the River on Horseback in the Night - JOSEPH GRANT AND JOHN SPEAKS :
Two Passengers on the Underground Rail Road, Via Liverpool - WILLIAM N. TAYLOR :
One Hundred Dollars Reward - ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND :
Jeremiah W. Smith and Wife Julia - BLOOD FLOWED FREELY :
Abram Galloway and Richard Eden, Two Passengers Secreted in a Vessel Loaded with Spirits of Turpentine. Shrouds Prepared to Prevent Being Smoked to Death - ESCAPE OF A YOUNG SLAVE MOTHER :
Left Her Little Baby-Boy, Little Girl and Husband Behind. - SAMUEL W. JOHNSON :
Arrival from the Daily Dispatch Office - CAPTAIN F. AND THE MAYOR OF NORFOLK :
Twenty-One Passengers Secreted in a Boat. November, 1855 - ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES :
Matilda MahoneyDr. J.W. Penningtons Brother and Sons Captured and Carried Back - FLEEING GIRL OF FIFTEEN, IN MALE ATTIRE :
Professors H. and T. Offer Their ServicesCaptains B. Also Are EnlistedSlave-Trader Grasping Tightly His Prey, but She Is RescuedLong Conflict, but Great TriumphArrival on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1855 - CHARLES GILBERT :
Fleeing from Davis a Negro Trader, Secreted Under a Hotel, up a Tree, Under a Floor, in a Thicket, on a Steamer - SAMUEL GREEN ALIAS WESLEY KINNARD, AUGUST 28th, 1854 :
Ten Years in the Penitentiary for Having a Copy of Uncle Toms Cabin - AN IRISH GIRLS DEVOTION TO FREEDOM :
In Love with a SlaveGets Him off to CanadaFollows Him :
Marriage, &C - SAM NIXON ALIAS DR. THOMAS BAYNE :
The Escape of a Dentist on the U.G.R.R. He Is Taken for an ImpostorElected a Member of City Council in New Bedford :
Studying Medicine, Etc. - SLAVE-TRADER HALL IS FOILED :
Robert McCoy Alias William Donar - THE PROTECTION OF SLAVE PROPERTY IN VIRGINIA :
A Bill Providing Additional Protection for the Slave Property of Citizens of This Commonwealth - ISAAC WILLIAMS, HENRY BANKS, AND KIT NICKLESS :
Months in a Cave,Shot by Slave-Hunters - PETE MATTHEWS, ALIAS SAMUEL SPARROWS :
I Might as Well Be in the Penitentiary, &C. - MOSES ARRIVES WITH SIX PASSENGERS :
Not Allowed to Seek a Master;Very Devilish;Father Leaves Two Little Sons;Used Hard;Feared Falling into the Hands of Young Heirs, Etc. John Chase, Alias Daniel Floyd; Benjamin Ross, Alias James Stewart; Henry Ross, Alias Levin Stewart; Peter Jackson, Alias Staunch Tilghman; Jane Kane, Alias Catharine Kane, and Robert Ross - SLAVE-HOLDER IN MARYLAND WITH THREE COLORED WIVES :
James Griffin Alias Thomas Brown - OWEN AND OTHO TAYLORS FLIGHT WITH HORSES, ETC. :
Three Brothers, Two of Them with Wives and Children. - THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL OF 1850 :
An Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Service of Their Masters. - THE SLAVE-HUNTING TRAGEDY IN LANCASTER COUNTY, IN SEPTEMBER, 1851 :
Treason at Christiana - WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT :
Female Slave in Male Attire, Fleeing as a Planter, with Her Husband as Her Body Servant - ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1857 :
John Wright and Wife, Elizabeth Ann, and Charles Connor - ARRIVAL FROM NEW ORLEANS, 1857 :
James Conner, Shot in Different Parts of the Body - ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. :
Harrison Cary - ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND :
Christopher Green and Wife, Ann Maria, and Son Nathan - ARRIVAL FROM ALEXANDRIA :
William Triplett and Thomas Harper - ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK, VA. :
Abram Wooders - ARRIVAL FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 1857 :
Harry Grimes, George Upsher, and Edward Lewis. Feet Slit for Running Away, Flogged, Stabbed, Stayed in the Hollow of a Big Poplar Tree, Visited by a Snake, Abode in a Cave - HON. L. McLANES PROPERTY, SOON AFTER HIS DEATH, TRAVELS VIA THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD.WILLIAM KNIGHT, ESQ., LOSES A SUPERIOR ARTICLE :
Jim Scott, Tom Pennington, Sam Scott, Bill Scott, Abe Bacon, and Jack Wells - ARRIVAL FROM HIGHTSTOWN, 1858 :
Robert Thompson (A Preacher) - ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1858 :
Mary Frances Melvin, Eliza Henderson, and Nancy Grantham - ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1858 :
Orlando J. Hunt - ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1858 :
William Carpenter - CROSSING THE BAY IN A SKIFF :
William Thomas Cope, John Boice Grey, Henry Boice and Isaac White - ARRIVAL FROM KENT COUNTY, MD., 1858 :
Asbury Irwin, Ephraim Ennis, and Lydia Ann Johns - ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1858 :
Theophilus Collins, Andrew Jackson Boyce, Handy Burton and Robert Jackson. A Desperate, Bloody StruggleGun, Knife and Fire Shovel, Used by an Infuriated Master - ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1859 :
Ann Maria Jackson and Her Seven ChildrenMary Ann, William Henry, Frances Sabrina, Wilhelmina, John Edwin, Ebenezer Thomas, and William Albert - ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1860 :
Jenny Buchanan. A Kind Master; Jenny Chastised One of His Sons for an Insult, and as a Punishment She Was SoldSeized for DebtSold a Second Time - CROSSING THE BAY IN A BATTEAU :
Sharp Contest with Pursuers on Water. Fugitives Victorious. Thomas Sipple, and His Wife, Mary Ann, Henry Burkett, and Elizabeth, His Wife, John Purnell, and Hale Burton - ARRIVAL FROM DORCHESTER CO., 1860 :
Harriet Tubmans Last Trip to Maryland - ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND :
John William Dungy.Brought a Pass from Ex. Gov. Gregory - WOMAN ESCAPING IN A BOX, 1857 :
She Was Speechless - ORGANIZATION OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE :
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