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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.
Title: Letters to Rev. Joel Hawes, D.D.: in review of his Tribute
to the memory of the Pilgrims.Author: Samuel J MayPublisher: Gale,
Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02249900CollectionID:
CTRG97-B1937PublicationDate: 18310101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 72 p.; 24 cm
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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