Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still After Forty Years of Slavery

by William H Furness, Kate E.R. Pickard, William Henry Furness, et al.

Book Overview

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"