The underground rail road : 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 : together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road / by William Still.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Still, William, 1821-1902.

Contributor:

Bensell, Edmund Birckhead, 1842- engraver.

Schell, Frederic B., Engraver.

Porter & Coates., Publisher.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underground Railroad.

Fugitive slaves--United States.

Fugitive slaves.

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

Physical Description:

780 pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

U.G.R.R

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Porter & Coates, 1872.

Contents:

Seth Conklin

Underground railroad letters

William Box Peel Jones

Wesley Harris and Robert Jackson, Craven Matterson and two brothers

Clarissa Davis

Anthony Blow alias Henry Levison

Perry Johnson, of Elkton, Maryland

Isaac Forman, William Davis and Willis Redick

Joseph Henry Camp

Sheridan Ford

Joseph Kneeland alias Joseph Hulson

Ex-President Tyler's household loses an aristocratic article

Edward Morgan, Henry Johnson, James and Stephen Butler

Henry Predo

Mary Epps alias Emma Brown, Joseph and Robert Robinson

George Solomon, Daniel Neall, Benjamin R. Fletcher and Maria Dorsey

Henry Box Brown

Trial of the emancipators of Col. J.H. Wheeler's slaves, Jane Johnson and her two little boys

The arrivals of a single month

A slave girl's narrative

Arrival of Jackson, Isaac and Edmondson Turner from Petersburg

Robert Brown alias Thomas Jones

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

William N. Taylor

Louisa Brown, Jacob Waters, and Alfred Goulden

Arrival from Baltimore

Several arrivals from different places

Arrival from Richmond

Eight arrivals

Charles Thompson

Blood flowed freely

John Pettifoot

Emanuel T. White

The escape of a child fourteen months old

Escape of a young slave mother

Samuel W. Johnson

Family from Baltimore

Elijah Hilton

Solomon Brown

William Hogg alias John Smith

Two female passengers from Maryland

Captain F. and the Mayor of Norfolk

Arrivals from different places

Fleeing girl of fifteen in male attire

Five years and one month secreted

From Virginia, Maryland and Delaware

Sam Isaac, Perry, Charles and Green

From Richmond and Norfork, Va.

Four arrivals

From Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Washington, D.C. and South Carolina

Charles Gilbert

Liberty of death

Salt-water fugitive

Samuel Green alias Wesley Kinnard

An Irish girl's devotion to freedom

"Sam" Nixon alias Dr. Thomas Bayne

Sunday arrivals

Heavy reward

Slave-trader Hall is foiled

The protection of slave property in Virginia

Escaping in a chest

Isaac Williams, Henry Banks and Kit Nickless

Arrival of five from the Eastern Shore of Maryland

Sundry arrivals about August 1st, 1855

Deep furrows on the back

Peter Mathews alias Samuel Sparrows

"Moses" arrived with six passengers

Escaped from "a worthless sot"

William Butcher alias Wm. T. Mitchell

"White enough to pass"

Escaping with master's carriages and horses

Eight and a half months secreted

Arthur Fowler alias Benjamin Johnson

Sunday arrivals about January 1st, 1855.

Slave-holder in Maryland with three colored wives

Captain F. arrives with nine passengers

Owen and Otho Taylor's flight with horses, &c.

Capt. F. arrives with fourteen "prime articles" on board

Sundry arrivals, latter part of December, 1855, and beginning of January, 1856

Part of the arrivals in December, 1855

The Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850

The slave hunting tragedy in Lancaster County, in September, 1851

William and Ellen Craft

Arrivals from Richmond

Passengers from North Carolina / [by Schooner]

Thomas Clinton, Sauney Pry and Benjamin Ducket

Arrivals in April, 1856

Five from Georgetown cross-roads

Passengers from Maryland

Arrival from Maryland

Arrival from Washington, D.C., & C, 1857

Arrival from Unionville, 1857

Arrival from Maryland, 1857

Arrival from Cambridge, 1857

Benjamin Ross and his wife Harriet

Arrival from Virginia, 1857

Arrival from Delaware, 1857

Arrival from Alexandria, in 1857

Arrival from New Orleans, 1857

Arrival from Washington, D.C.

Arrival from Norfolk, Va.

Four able bodied "articles" in one arrival, 1857

Arrival from Arlington, Md., 1857

Five passengers, 1847

Arrival from Howard County, Md., 1857

Arrival from Prince George's County, Md.

Arrival from Rappahannock County, 1857

Arrival from North Carolina, 1857

Alfred Hollon, George and Charles N. Rodgers

Arrival from Kent County, 1857

Arrival from Baltimore County, 1857

Mary Cooper and Moses Armstead, 1857

Arrival from near Washington, D.C.

Hon. L. McLane's property, soon after his death, travels via the Underground Rail Road

William Knight, Esq. loses a superior "article"

Arrival from Harford County, 1857

Arrival from Norfolk, Va., 1857

Arrival from Hooperville, Md., 1857

Arrival from Queen Anne County, 1858

Arrived from Dunwoody County, 1858

Arrived from Alexandria, Va., 1857

Arrival from Maryland, 1858

Arrival from Petersburg, 1858

Arrival of a party of six, 1858

Arrival from Richmond, 1858

Arrival from Baltimore, 1858

Arrival from Hightstown, 1858

Arrival from Virginia, 1858

Arrival from Bellair

Arrival from Norfolk, Va., 1858

Arrival from near Baltimore, 1858

Arrival from Washington, 1858

Arrival from the Old Dominion

Arrival from Delaware, 1858

Arrival from North Carolina and Delaware

Arrival from Maryland.

Arrival from the District of Columbia, 1858

Arrival from Honey Brook Township, 1858

Arrival from Alexandria, Va., 1858

Arrival from the seat of government

Crossing the bay in a skiff

Arrival from Kent County, Md., 1858

Arrival from Cecil County, 1858

Arrival from Georgetown, D.C., 1858

Arrival from Sussex County, 1858

Sundry arrivals in 1859

Arrival from Richmond, 1859

Arrival from Maryland, 1859

Sundry arrivals, 1859

Arrival from Delaware, 1859

Arrival from Virginia, 1859

Sundry arrivals from Maryland, 1859

Arrival from Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia

Sundry arrivals from Maryland and Virginia

Arrival from Seaford, 1859

Arrival from Taps' Neck, Md., 1859

Sundry arrivals from Virginia, Maryland and Delaware

Arrival from different points

Sundry arrivals from Maryland, 1860

Arrival from Virginia, 1860

Arrival from near Baltimore, 1860

Arrival from Fredericksburg, 1860

Crossing the bay in a batteau

Arrival from Dorchester County, 1860

Arrival from Maryland, 1860

Twelve months in the woods, 1860

A slave catcher caught in his own trap

To whom it might concern

Arrival from Richmond, 1859.

Arrival from Richmond

"Aunt Hannah Moore"

Kidnapping of Rachel and Elizabeth Parker

murder of Joseph C. Miller, in 1851 and 1852

Arrival from Virginia, 1854

Arrival from Norfolk

Arrival of fifteen from Norfolk, Virginia

The case of Euphemia Williams

Helpers and sympathizers at home and abroad

interesting letters

Pamphlets and letters

Letters to the writer

Woman escaping in a box, 1857

Organization of the Vigilance Committee

Portraits and sketches

Abigail Goodwin

Thomas Garrett

Daniel Gibbons

Lucretia Mott

James Miller McKim

William H. Furness, D.D.

William Lloyd Garrison

Lewis Tappan

Elijah F. Pennypacker

William Wright

Dr. Bartholomew Fussell

Thomas Shipley

Robert Purvis

John Hunn

Samuel Rhoads

George Corson

Charles D. Cleveland

William Whipper

Isaac T. Hopper

Samuel D. Burris

Mariann, Grace Anna, and Elizabeth R. Lewis

Cunningham's Rache

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Notes:

"Illustrated with 70 fine engravings by Bensell, Schell and others."

"Sold only by subscription."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Octavia Hill Association to honor Athenaeum Treasurer William Davison.

OCLC:

2082902