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The Kidnapped and the Ransomed - The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still after Forty Years of Slavery (Paperback, New edition)
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The Kidnapped and the Ransomed - The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still after Forty Years of Slavery (Paperback, New edition)
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Originally published in 1856, "The Kidnapped and the Ransomed" is
the personal recollection of Peter Still, a black slave. He was
stolen as a child from his home in New Jersey, yoked to servitude
for more than forty years in Kentucky and Alabama, and finally
freed with the help of a pair of Jewish brothers. It is the only
nineteenth-century slave narrative to show the participation of the
Jews in the antislavery movement before the Civil War. The reader
follows Still through a succession of brutal masters, a clandestine
courtship, marriage involving separation, births and deaths, the
formation of a daring plan for freedom, and harrowing action. No
stage drama could be as wrenching as this true rendering of a
slave's experience in America. Kate E. R. Pickard was in contact
with Still while she taught at the Female Seminary in Tuscumbia,
Alabama. Maxwell Whiteman was the archival and historical
consultant for the Union League of Philadelphia and coauthor, with
Edwin Wolf II, of The History of the Jews of Philadelphia from
Colonial Times to the Age of Jackson. The original introduction by
Rev. Samuel J. May, an abolitionist, has been retained.
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