Rudisel-Slave Narratives Underground RR

Loved this and I'm not a big history buff. This was an eye-opener. This will make you have an even deeper respect for those who went through slavery and all they endured. &; Pollard HouseDuring the 1850s and 1860s more than 100000 people escaped slavery in the American South by following the Underground Railroad a complex network of secret routes and safe houses. This inexpensive compilation of firsthand accounts offers authentic insights into the Civil War era and African-American history with compelling narratives by Frederick Douglass Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth and lesser-known refugees.Thirty selections include the story of Eliza Harris The Slave Woman Who Crossed the Ohio River on the Drifting Ice with Her Child in Her Arms whose experience inspired a memorable scene in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Other accounts include that of Henry Box Brown who hid in a crate mailed to Philadelphia abolitionists; Theophilus Collins's escape after A Desperate Bloody Struggle &; Gun Knife and Fire Shovel Used by Infuriated Master; excerpts from Harriet Jacobs's 1861 narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and the remarkable flight of William and Ellen Craft Female Slave in Male Attire Fleeing as a Planter with Her Husband as Her Body Servant.