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Description: Identifier: undergroundrailr00lcstil (find matches) Title: The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom Year: 1872 (1870s) Authors: Still, William, 1821-1902 Subjects: Underground Railroad Fugitive slaves -- United States Antislavery movements -- United States Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: REV. WILLIAM H. FURNESS. Sec p. 659 Text Appearing After Image: WILLIAM LLOVD (JAUKISOX. Sec p. 6G5. LEWIS TAPPAK. rice l>. IJt EMliNENT ANTI-SLAVERY MEN. JAMES MILLER McEIM. 659 mous vote on his motion, disbanded, and handed over the funds in itstreasury to its constituent State associations. Mr. McKim retired from hislabors with impaired health, and has since taken no open part in publicaffairs. He is one of the proprietors of the New York Nation, in theestablishment of which, he took an effective interest. Mr. McKims long and assiduous career in the anti-slavery cause, hasgiven evidence of a peculiar fitness in him for the functions he successivelydischarged. His influence upon men and the times, has been less as aspeakei, than as a writer, and perhaps still less as a writer than as an organ-izer, a contriver of ways and means; fertile in invention, prepared to taketlie initiative, and bringing to the conversion of others, an earnestness ofj)urpose and a force of language that seldom failed of success. In anenterprise where theory and sentim Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Undergroundrailr00lcstil 0712 Furness
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