| The Kidnapped And The Ransomed: Being The Personal Recollections Of Peter Still And His Wife Vina, After Forty Years Of Slavery (1856) Contributor(s): Pickard, Kate E. R. (Author), May, Samuel J. (Introduction by), Furness, William H. (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0548993114 ISBN-13: 9780548993118 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 1110 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.70 lbs) 412 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
