Introduction
Illustrations
- THE AUTHOR
- PETER STILL–“THE KIDNAPPED AND THE RANSOMED”
- CHARITY STILL TWICE ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY
- DESPERATE CONFLICT IN A BARN
- DEATH OF ROMULUS HALL
- RESURRECTION OF HENRY BOX BROWN
- RESCUE OF JANE JOHNSON AND HER CHILDREN
- PASSMORE WILLIAMSON
- JANE JOHNSON
- ESCAPING FROM PORTSMOUTH, VA
- TWENTY-EIGHT FUGITIVES ESCAPING FROM EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND
- ESCAPING FROM ALABAMA ON TOP OF A CAR
- CROSSING THE RIVER ON HORSEBACK IN THE NIGHT
- A BOLD STROKE FOR FREEDOM–CONTEST WITH FIRE-ARMS
- ABRAM GALLOWAY
- THE MAYOR AND POLICE OF NORFOLK SEARCHING CAPTAIN FOUNTAIN’S SCHOONER
- MARIA WEEMS ESCAPING AS JO WRIGHT
- JOHN HENRY HILL
- DRY-GOODS MERCHANT SEARCHING THE CARS
- ESCAPE WITH A LADY, AS HER COACHMAN, WITH MASTER’S HORSE AND CARRIAGE
- SIX ON TWO HORSES
- UP A TREE
- SAMUEL GREEN SENTENCED TO THE PENITENTIARY FOR TEN YEARS FOR HAVING A COPY OF “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN” IN HIS HOUSE
- LEAR GREEN ESCAPING IN A CHEST
- ESCAPE OF ELEVEN PASSENGERS FROM MARYLAND IN TWO CARRIAGES
- THE CHRISTIANA TRAGEDY
- WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT
- MEMBERS OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE:
- KNIFING HIS VICTIM
- LIVING IN A HOLLOW TREE
- IN A CAVE
- A NARROW ESCAPE
- SUSPENDED BY THE HANDS WITH BLOCK AND TACKLE
- CROSSING THE BAY
- BREAKING HIM IN
- MOTHER ESCAPING WITH SEVEN CHILDREN
- FIGHT IN CHESAPEAKE BAY
- JOHN W. DUNGEE
- MARY MILBURN (SECRETED IN A BOX)
- HEAVY WEIGHTS–ARRIVAL OF A PARTY AT LEAGUE ISLAND
- SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS OF STATION-MASTERS, PROMINENT ANTI-SLAVERY MEN, AND SUPPORTERS OF THE U.G.R.R.:
- ABIGAIL GOODWIN
- THOMAS GARRETT
- DANIEL GIBBONS
- LUCRETIA MOTT
- J. MILLER M’KIM
- WILLIAM H. FURNESS
- WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
- LEWIS TAPPAN
- ELIJAH F. PENNYPACKER
- WILLIAM WRIGHT
- DR. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL
- ROBERT PURVIS
- JOHN HUNN
- SAMUEL RHOADS
- WILLIAM WHIPPER
- SAMUEL D. BURRIS
- CHARLES D. CLEVELAND
- GRACE ANNA LEWIS
- MRS. FRANCES E.W. HARPER
- JOHN NEEDLES
