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Format:
Book
Title:
The Underground Railroad
ISBN:
9780139357435
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : Prentice-Hall Press, [1987]
Physical Description:
xii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
Alabama. Narrative of Peter Still -- Georgia and Florida. Narrative of William and Ellen Craft ; Narrative of Philip Younger ; Narrative of Patrick Smead ; Narrative of Reuben Saunders ; Narrative of John Brown ; Narrative of Jim Bow-legs alias Bill Paul -- Mississippi and Louisiana. Narrative of a nameless woman ; Narrative of Rachel and Mary Elizabeth Parker ; Narrative of Alexander Milton Ross -- Texas and Missouri -- Kansas and Nebraska territories. Narrative of John Brown ; Narrative of William Wells BRown -- Narrative of John Jackson ; Narrative of Daniel Fisher -- North Carolina. Narrative of Harry Grimes ; Narrative of Passmore Williamson -- Tennessee and Kentucky. Narrative of Jermain Wesley Loguen ; Narrative of Louis Hayden ; Narrative of Eliza Harris -- Maryland. Narrative of Margaret Ward and infant son Samuel Ringgold Ward ; Narrative of Samuel Green, Jr. ; Narrative of Frederick Douglass ; Narrative of Harriet Tubman -- Virginia. Narrative of Captain Fountain ; Narrative of Charles Peyton Lucas ; Narrative of Henry Box Brown ; Narrative of John Fairfield ; Narrative of John Hall and Mary Weaver ; Narrative of Eben Pettit -- District of Columbia. Narrative of Solomon Northrup ; Narrative of Thomas Smallwood ; Narrative of Harrison Cary ; Narrative of Francis Henderson -- Delaware. Narrative of Jacob Blockson ; Letters of Thomas Garrett ; Narrative of Alexander Boss ; Narrative of William Thomas Cope, John Boice Grey, Henry Boice, and Isaac White -- Free Midwest. Narrative of the slave girl and the soldiers ; Narrative of Levi Coffin ; Narrative of Margaret Garner ; Narrative of Caroline Quarreles -- Free Middle Atlantic. Narrative of Jerry McHenry ; William Henry Johnson -- Free New England. Narrative of Charlotte Forten ; Narrative of James Mars ; Narrative of Austin Bearse ; Narrative of the Gileadites -- Canada.
Summary:
"First-person narratives of escapes to freedom in the north." Illustrated with unpaged photos and portraits. Includes narratives by Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass
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