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The Underground Railroad

door William Still · 56 delen · about 32 hours 50 minutes leestijd

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William Still werkte in een kantoor in Philadelphia waar mensen die aan slavernij ontsnapten om hulp kwamen. Hij verborg hen, gaf hen te eten, schreef hun namen en hun verhalen op, en stuurde hen verder naar de vrijheid. Jaren later zette hij die waargebeurde verhalen in dit boek. Je ontmoet een man die zichzelf in een kist liet verzenden, moeders die hun baby's door de kou droegen, en families die elkaar na vele jaren weer vonden.

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Preface to the Revised Edition6 min Part 1: Seth Concklin to Levi Coffin34 min Part 2: Levi Coffin to Letter from "Wm. Penn" (of the Bar)33 min Part 3: Letter from Miss Theodocia Gilbert to Letter from Mrs. L.E. White33 min Part 4: Letter from William Henry Gilliam to Ex-President Tyler's Household Loses an Aristocratic "Article"34 min Part 5: Edward Morgan, Henry Johnson, James and Stephen Butler to Arrived by Adams' Express36 min Part 6: The Deliverer of Box Brown: Meeting of the Colored Citizens of Philadelphia to Letter Copied from the New York Tribune33 min Part 7: The Arrivals of a Single Month to William Cooper37 min Part 8: Thos. Garrett to Cornelius Scott33 min Part 9: Samuel Williams, Alias John Williams to Arrival from Baltimore35 min Part 10: Letter from Jefferson Pipkins to Wm. W. Hardwick"34 min Part 11: C.W. Thompson to Ro. J. Christians33 min Part 12: R.J. Christian to Three Fugitive Slaves Arrested in New York, and Given Up to Their Owners33 min Part 13: The Fugitive Slaves in Baltimore to Letters from William Penn39 min Part 14: Five Years and One Month Secreted to Tenth Letter35 min Part 15: John H. Hill to Susan Brooks33 min Part 16: William Henry Atkins to David Robinson37 min Part 17: Patterson Smith to Liberty or Death37 min Part 18: Salt-Water Fugitive to "Sam" Nixon Alias Dr. Thomas Bayne37 min Part 19: Letter from a. Goodwin to Hiram Wilson36 min Part 20: James H. Forman to Escaping in a Chest33 min Part 21: James Noble to "I Might as Well Be in the Penitentiary, &c"36 min Part 22: "Moses" Arrives with Six Passengers to Verenea Mercer43 min Part 23: James Griffin Alias Thomas Brown to Names of the "Articles"35 min Part 24: Rebecca Jones to E.F. Pennypacker40 min Part 25: "An Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Service of Their Masters" to "Treason at Christiana"36 min Part 26: The Law of Treason, as Laid Down by Judge Kane to Female Slave in Male Attire, Fleeing as a Planter, with Her Husband as Her Body Servant34 min Part 27: Slave-Hunters in Boston to Thomas Clinton, Sauney Pry and Benjamin Ducket36 min Part 28: Mr. Wm. Still: to Oscar D. Ball, and Montgomery Graham37 min Part 29: Oscar D. Ball to George Johnson, Thomas and Adam Smith34 min Part 30: Isaac Scaggs to Alfred Hollon, George and Charles N. Rodgers34 min Part 31: Samuel Benton, John Alexander, James Henry, and Samuel Turner to Edward Carroll35 min Part 32: James Mason to Wm. J.B. Parlett33 min Part 33: Geo. H. Carman to George Laws and Comrade: Tied and Hoisted with Block and Tackle, to Be Cowhided33 min Part 34: John Weems, Alias Jack Herring to William Thomas Cope, John Boice Grey, Henry Boice and Isaac White34 min Part 35: Asbury Irwin, Ephraim Ennis, and Lydia Ann Johns to Stepney Brown33 min Part 36: Stepney Brown to Robert Bell and Two Others33 min Part 37: Lewis Wilson, John Waters, Alfred Edwards and William Quinn to Philip Stanton, Randolph Nichols, and Thomas Douglass42 min Part 38: Crossing the Bay in a Batteau to Beware of Slave-Catchers33 min Part 39: Arrival from Richmond to Tom M'creary39 min Part 40: Tucker White to Claimed as a Fugitive Slave Under the Fugitive Slave-Law After Having Lived in Pennsylvania for More Than Twenty Years38 min Part 41: The Overseer Is Now Examined38 min Part 42: Helpers and Sympathizers at Home and Abroad: Interesting Letters to To the Friends of the Slave44 min Part 43: Letters to the Writer to Esther Moore33 min Part 44: Death of a Noble Woman to Funeral Service on Saturday45 min Part 45: Wm. Lloyd Garrison to Daniel Gibbons34 min Part 46: Daniel Bonsall to William H. Furness, D.D45 min Part 47: William Lloyd Garrison to Speech of Mr. Garrison42 min Part 48: Lewis Tappan to William Wright40 min Part 49: Dr. Bartholomew Fussell to Thomas Shipley36 min Part 50: Thomas Shipley to George Corson33 min Part 51: Robert R. Corson to Charles D. Cleveland34 min Part 52: William Whipper to Samuel D. Burris35 min Part 53: Earnest in the Cause to Frances Ellen Watkins Harper36 min Part 54: Letter to John Brown's Wife to Private Lectures to Freedwomen44 min Part 55: Private Lectures to Freedwomen (continued)13 min