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The Kidnapped and the Ransomed - Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Paperback)
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The Kidnapped and the Ransomed - Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Paperback)
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WITHIN the last four years, many hundreds, probably thousands, of
persons in our nominally free States, have seen Peter Still, a
neat, staid black man, going from city to city, town to town, house
to house, asking assistance to enable him to purchase the freedom
of his wife and children. He has always been grateful for the
smallest favors, and never morose when utterly denied. He has not
obtruded himself or his story; but those who have shown curiosity
enough to make any inquiries, have been soon led to suspect that he
was no common man; that the events of his life had been thrillingly
interesting--some of them even more wonderful than we often meet
with in works of fiction. Kidnapped, in his early childhood, from
the door-step of his home in New Jersey; more than forty years a
slave in Kentucky and Alabama; his unsuccessful appeal to the great
Henry Clay; his liberation through the generosity of a Jew; his
restoration to his mother by the guidance of the slightest threads
of memory; the yearning of his heart for his loved ones; the heroic
but disastrous attempt of Concklin to bring his wife and children
to him--wherever these incidents of his life were detailed, they
seldom failed to draw from the hand of the listener some
contribution towards the exorbitant sum demanded for the liberation
of his family.
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