Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still After Forty Years of Slavery
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803292333
ISBN13:9780803292338
Release Date:September 1995
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:409 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"
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