The Underground Rail Road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. : narrating the hardships hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in the 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
- Title
- The Underground Rail Road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. : narrating the hardships hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in the 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 / by William Still, for many years connected with the Anti-Slavery Office in Philadelphia, and chairman of the Acting Vigilance Committee of the Philadelphia Branch of the Underground Rail Road ; illustrated with 70 fine engravings by Bensell, Schell, and others, and portraits from photographs from life ; sold only by subscription.
- Published by
- Philadelphia : Porter & Coates, 822, Chestnut Street, 1872.
- ©1871
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 4 unnumbered pages, 780 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subject
- Still, William, 1821-1902 -- Portraits
- Underground Railroad
- Underground Railroad -- History
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- United States -- History
- Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography
- Genre/Form
- Ink stamps (Provenance)
- Call number
- Sc Rare 326.973-S (Still, W. Underground rail road. 1872)
- Language
- English
- Note
- Another edition published in 1872 has a variant frontispiece portrait, without the imprint statement "Engraved by John Sartain, Phila.", and a variant printer statement on verso of title page: "Jas. B. Rodgers Co. electrotypers & printers, 52 & 54 North 6th Street, Philad'a."
- Frontispiece portrait of William Still has imprint: "Engraved by John Sartain, Phila."
- "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1871 by Wm. Still, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
- "Henry B. Ashmead, printer, Phila."--printer statement, verso of title page.
- Publisher's advertisements, 4 unnumbered pages at end.
- Provenance (note)
- with the ink stamp "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Author
- Still, William, 1821-1902, author.
- Title
- The Underground Rail Road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. : narrating the hardships hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in the 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 / by William Still, for many years connected with the Anti-Slavery Office in Philadelphia, and chairman of the Acting Vigilance Committee of the Philadelphia Branch of the Underground Rail Road ; illustrated with 70 fine engravings by Bensell, Schell, and others, and portraits from photographs from life ; sold only by subscription.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Porter & Coates, 822, Chestnut Street, 1872.
- Copyright date
- ©1871
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-S (accession no. B526356) with the ink stamp "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Connect to:
- Local subject
- Black author.
- Added author
- Ashmead, Henry Buckley, printer.
- Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver.
- Bensell, George F. (George Frederick), 1837-1879, ill.
- Schell, Frederic B., ill.
- Porter & Coates, publisher.
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research call number
- Sc Rare 326.973-S (Still, W. Underground rail road. 1872)