|
|
|
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
|
|
William Still, The Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c. (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872)
|
|
| Escape from Maryland |
|
|
Although enslaved people ran away from the very beginning (early in the seventeenth century), the last sixty years of the "Peculiar Institution" saw a massive increase in the number of fugitives who sought refuge in the North, Canada, and Mexico.
|
|
|
|
Hide indexing information
|
|
| Image ID: | 1167938 |
Title: | Twenty-eight fugitives escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. |
Source: | The underground railroad: A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, & c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author : together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road. |
Name: | Still, William (1821-1902) - Author |
Published: | 1872 |
Location: | Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
Subjects: | African Americans |
| Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) |
| Fugitive slaves |
|
|
view larger image
