The Underground Railroad, Part 5

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LibriVox recording of The Underground Railroad, Part 5 by William Still. Read in English by Michele Fry; Denise Nordell; Greg Giordano; Susan Morin; Maria Kasper; Al Leach; Jennifer Dorr; nomorejeffs; Cheri Jordan; Kajo. "I congratulate you that, after much patient research, careful preparation, and untiring labor, you have completed your voluminous work on "THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD." I am sure your work will be found to be one of absorbing interest, worthy of the widest patronage, and historically valuable as pertaining to the tremendous struggle for the abolition of chattel slavery in our land. No phase of that struggle was so crowded with thrilling incidents, heroic adventures, and self-sacrificing efforts as the one you have undertaken to portray, and with which you were so closely connected, to wit: "THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD." While it will be contemplated with shame, sadness, and astonishment, by posterity, it will serve vividly to illustrate the perils which everywhere confronted the fugitives from the Southern "house of bondage," and to which those who dared to give them food and shelter were also subjected." Wm. Lloyd Garrison William Still is often called the Father of th…

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William Still

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;slavery; railroad; biography; Philadelphia; runaway; slave; underground; emancipation; underground railroad; escape; william still; vigilance committee; esther moore; abigail goodwin; thomas garrett; daniel gibbons; lucretia mott; james miller; william h furness; wiliam furness; william lloyd garrison; william garrison; lewis tappan; elijah f pennypacker; elijah pennypacker; william wright; bartholomew fussell; thomas shipley; robert purvis; john hunn; samuel rhodes; george corson; charles d cleveland; charles cleveland; william whipper; isaac t hopper; isaac hopper; samuel d burris; samuel burris; mariann lewis; grace lewis; anna lewis; elizabeth lewis; frances ellen watkins; cunningham's rache

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