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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
"Historically significant document by Still, a free-born Black man who became an author and abolitionist movement leader in Philadelphia, PA. The volume document the stories of escaped slaves, and remains "the only first-person account of Black activities on the Underground Railroad writte...
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Philadelphia :
Porter & Coates, 822, Chestnut Street,
1872.
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| Edition: | first edition |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Still, William, |d 1821-1902, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The underground rail road : |b 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 |c by William Still, for many years connected with the Anti-Slavery Office in Philadelphia, and chairman of the Acting Vigilant Committee of the Philadelphia Branch of the underground rail road ; illustrated with 70 fine engravings by Bensell, Schell and others, and portraits from photographs from life |
| 250 | |a first edition | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Philadelphia : |b Porter & Coates, 822, Chestnut Street, |c 1872. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1871 | |
| 300 | |a 4 unnumbered pages, 780 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : |b illustrations, portraits ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 541 | 0 | |c gift; |a Rebecca Hollingsworth; |d November 20, 2019. | |
| 500 | |a "Sold only by subscription."--Title page. | ||
| 500 | |a Frontispiece portrait of William Still. | ||
| 520 | |a "Historically significant document by Still, a free-born Black man who became an author and abolitionist movement leader in Philadelphia, PA. The volume document the stories of escaped slaves, and remains "the only first-person account of Black activities on the Underground Railroad written and self-published by an African-America...William Still was a major contributor to the success of the Underground Railroad activities in Philadelphia and a part of Philadelphia's free Black community that played an essential role in the Underground Railroad. He personally provide room and board for many African Americans who escaped slavery and stopped in Philadelphia on their way to Canada. Through his work with the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery's Vigilance Committee, he raised funds to assist runaways and arrange their passage to the North. He was instrumental in financing several of Harriet Tubman's trips to the South to liberate enslaved Africans" (Turner, Diane D. "William Still's National Significance." Web blog post. William Still: African American Abolitionist. Temple University, n.d. 18 August, 2016)." --description from Lorne Bair Rare Books Inc., bookseller. | ||
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| 655 | 7 | |a Engravings (prints). |2 aat | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Bensell, Edmund Birckhead, |d 1842- |e engraver. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Porter & Coates, |e publisher | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) |5 MsSM | |
| 752 | |a United States |b Pennsylvania |d Philadelphia. | ||
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Still, William, 1821-1902. |t Underground rail road. |d Philadelphia : Porter & Coates, 1872 |w (OCoLC)665227023 |
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