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The Underground Railroad

作者 William Still · 56 部分 · about 32 hours 50 minutes 阅读时间

你好,我叫 Finn,我来帮你读懂这本书。

来了,像给10岁的你讲的那样:

威廉·斯蒂尔在费城的一间办公室工作，从奴隶制中逃出来的人到那里求助。他把他们藏起来，给他们吃的，记下他们的名字和故事，再送他们走向自由。多年以后，他把这些真实故事放进了这本书里。你会遇到一个把自己装进箱子寄出去的男人，在寒冷中抱着婴儿走过的母亲们，还有分别多年后重新找到彼此的一家人。

整本书用英文阅读。这里是所有章节:

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章节

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