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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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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.
Mrs. Pickard's ability to turn Peter Still's life into a narrative
that faithfully reflected the miseries and the horrors of
plantation slavery places it among the outstanding accounts of
slave life.-Maxwell Whiteman, in his introductory essay. 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. Introducing
this Bison Books edition is Nancy L. Grant, a professor of history
at Washington University, St. Louis, and author of TVA and Black
Americans: Planning for the Status Quo.
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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