William Still - The Underground Railroad (Complete Collection)

ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, 1858 JOSEPHINE ROBINSON

ARRIVAL FROM CECIL COUNTY, 1858 ROBERT JOHNS AND HIS WIFE "SUE ANN"

ARRIVAL FROM GEORGETOWN, D.C., 1858 PERRY CLEXTON, JIM BANKS AND CHARLES NOLE

ARRIVAL FROM SUSSEX COUNTY, 1858 JACOB BLOCKSON, GEORGE ALLIGOOD, JIM ALLIGOOD, AND GEORGE LEWIS

SUNDRY ARRIVALS IN 1859 SARAH ANN MILLS, Boonsborough; CAROLINE GASSWAY, Mt. Airy; LEVIN HOLDEN, Laurel; WILLIAM JAMES CONNER, with his wife, child, and four brothers; JAMES LAZARUS, Delaware; RICHARD WILLIAMS, Richmond, Virginia; SYDNEY HOPKINS and HENRY WHEELER, Havre de Grace

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1859 CORNELIUS HENRY JOHNSON. FACE CANADA-WARD FOR YEARS

ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1858 THEOPHILUS COLLINS, ANDREW JACKSON BOYCE, HANDY BURTON AND ROBERT JACKSON A DESPERATE, BLOODY STRUGGLE — GUN, KNIFE AND FIRE SHOVEL, USED BY AN INFURIATED MASTER

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1859 STEPNEY BROWN

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1859 JIM KELL, CHARLES HEATH, WILLIAM CARLISLE, CHARLES RINGGOLD, THOMAS MAXWELL, AND SAMUEL SMITH

SUNDRY ARRIVALS, 1859 JOHN EDWARD LEE, JOHN HILLIS, CHARLES ROSS, JAMES RYAN, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, EDWARD WOOD, CORNELIUS FULLER AND HIS WIFE HARRIET, JOHN PINKET, ANSAL CANNON, AND JAMES BROWN

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1859 JAMES BROWN

ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1859 EDWARD, JOHN, AND CHARLES HALL

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1859 JAMES TAYLOR, ALBERT GROSS, AND JOHN GRINAGE

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND (1859) AND OTHER PLACES JAMES ANDY WILKINS, and wife LUCINDA, with their little boy, CHARLES, CHARLES HENRY GROSS, A WOMAN with her TWO CHILDREN — one in her arms — JOHN BROWN, JOHN ROACH, and wife LAMBY, and HENRY SMALLWOOD

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1859 HENRY JONES AND TURNER FOSTER

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND TWO YOUNG MOTHERS, EACH WITH BABES IN THEIR ARMS — ANNA ELIZABETH YOUNG AND SARAH JANE BELL — WHIPPED TILL THE BLOOD FLOWED

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JOHN WESLEY SMITH, ROBERT MURRAY, SUSAN STEWART, AND JOSEPHINE SMITH

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA HENRY FIELDS, CHARLES RINGGOLD, WILLIAM RINGGOLD, ISAAC NEWTON AND JOSEPH THOMAS

ARRIVAL FROM SEAFORD, 1859 ROBERT BELL AND TWO OTHERS

ARRIVAL FROM TAPPS' NECK, MD., 1859 LEWIS WILSON, JOHN WATERS, ALFRED EDWARDS AND WILLIAM QUINN

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1859 ANN MARIA JACKSON AND HER SEVEN CHILDREN — MARY ANN, WILLIAM HENRY, FRANCES SABRINA, WILHELMINA, JOHN EDWIN, EBENEZER THOMAS, AND WILLIAM ALBERT

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE LEWIS LEE, ENOCH DAVIS, JOHN BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD DIXON, AND WILLIAM OLIVER

ARRIVAL FROM DIFFERENT POINTS JACOB BROWN, JAMES HARRIS, BENJAMIN PINEY, JOHN SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON, WILLIAM HUGHES, WESLEY WILLIAMS, ROSANNA JOHNSON, JOHN SMALLWOOD, AND HENRY TOWNSEND

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND, 1860 WILLIAM CHION AND HIS WIFE, EMMA, EVAN GRAFF, AND FOUR OTHERS

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1860 JENNY BUCHANAN A KIND MASTER; JENNY CHASTISED ONE OF HIS SONS FOR AN INSULT, AND AS A PUNISHMENT SHE WAS SOLD — SEIZED FOR DEBT — SOLD A SECOND TIME

ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE, 1860 WILLIAM BROWN, AND JAMES HENSON

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND PHILIP STANTON, RANDOLPH NICHOLS, AND THOMAS DOUGLASS

ARRIVAL FROM FREDERICKSBURG, 1860 HENRY TUDLE AND WIFE, MARY WILLIAMS

SUNDRY ARRIVALS FROM MARYLAND, 1860 SAM ARCHER, LEWIS PECK, DAVID EDWARDS, EDWARD CASTING, JOE HENRY, GEORGE AND ALBERT WHITE, JOSEPH C. JOHNSON, DAVID SNIVELY, AND HENRY DUNMORE

CROSSING THE BAY IN A BATTEAU SHARP CONTEST WITH PURSUERS ON WATER. FUGITIVES VICTORIOUS

ARRIVAL FROM DORCHESTER CO., 1860 HARRIET TUBMAN'S LAST "TRIP" TO MARYLAND

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, 1860 JERRY MILLS, AND WIFE, DIANA, SON, CORNELIUS, AND TWO DAUGHTERS, MARGARET, AND SUSAN

TWELVE MONTHS IN THE WOODS, 1860 HENRY COTTON

ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND WILLIAM PIERCE

A SLAVE CATCHER CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP GEORGE F. ALBERTI PERSONATED BY A MEMBER OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE — A LADY FRIGHTENED BY A PLACARD

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1858 HENRY LANGHORN alias WM. SCOTT

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, 1859

ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND JOHN WILLIAM DUNGY. — BROUGHT A PASS FROM EX. GOV. GREGORY

"AUNT HANNAH MOORE"

KIDNAPPING OF RACHEL AND ELIZABETH PARKER — MURDER OF JOSEPH C. MILLER IN 1851 AND 1852

ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, 1854 TUCKER WHITE

ARRIVAL FROM NORFOLK MARY MILLBURN, alias LOUISA F. JONES, ESCAPED IN MALE ATTIRE

ARRIVAL OF FIFTEEN FROM NORFOLK, VIRGINIA PER SCHOONER — TWICE SEARCHED — LANDED AT LEAGUE ISLAND ISAAC FORMAN, HENRY WILLIAMS, WILLIAM SEYMOUR, HARRIET TAYLOR, MARY BIRD, MRS. LEWEY, SARAH SAUNDERS, SOPHIA GRAY, HENRY GRAY, MARY GRAY, WINFIELD SCOTT, and three children

THE CASE OF EUPHEMIA WILLIAMS, CLAIMED AS A FUGITIVE SLAVE UNDER THE FUGITIVE SLAVE-LAW AFTER HAVING LIVED IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS

HELPERS AND SYMPATHIZERS AT HOME AND ABROAD — INTERESTING LETTERS

PAMPHLET, AND LETTERS FROM MRS. ANNA H. RICHARDSON, OF NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND TO THE FRIENDS OF THE SLAVE

LETTERS TO THE WRITER

WOMAN ESCAPING IN A BOX, 1857 SHE WAS SPEECHLESS

ORGANIZATION OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE MEETING TO FORM A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE

PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES

ESTHER MOORE

ABIGAIL GOODWIN

FAITHFUL WORKERS IN THE CAUSE

THOMAS GARRETT

THE TRIAL OF THE CASES, 1848

FOUR OF GOD'S POOR

FOUR FEMALES ON BOARD

DANIEL GIBBONS

LUCRETIA MOTT

JAMES MILLER McKIM

WILLIAM H. FURNESS, D.D

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

LEWIS TAPPAN

ELIJAH F. PENNYPACKER

STATION MASTERS ON THE ROAD

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

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Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded, through the aid of my father, to reach a free State. Here life had to be begun anew. The old familiar slave names had to be changed, and others, for prudential reasons, had to be found. This was not hard work. However, hardly months had passed ere the keen scent of the slave-hunters had trailed them to where they had fancied themselves secure. In those days all power was in the hands of the oppressor, and the capture of a slave mother and her children was attended with no great difficulty other than the crushing of freedom in the breast of the victims. Without judge or jury, all were hurried back to wear the yoke again. But back this mother was resolved never to stay. She only wanted another opportunity to again strike for freedom. In a few months after being carried back, with only two of her little ones, she took her heart in her hand and her babes in her arms, and this trial was a success. Freedom was gained, although not without the sad loss of her two older children, whom she had to leave behind. Mother and father were again reunited in freedom, while two of their little boys were in slavery. What to do for them other than weep and pray, were questions unanswerable. For over forty years the mother's heart never knew what it was to be free from anxiety about her lost boys. But no tidings came in answer to her many prayers, until one of them, to the great astonishment of his relatives, turned up in Philadelphia, nearly fifty years of age, seeking his long-lost parents. Being directed to the Anti-Slavery Office for instructions as to the best plan to adopt to find out the whereabouts of his parents, fortunately he fell into the hands of his own brother, the writer, whom he had never heard of before, much less seen or known. And here began revelations connected with this marvellous coincidence, which influenced me, for years previous to Emancipation, to preserve the matter found in the pages of this humble volume.