Abolitionism in America

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Kate E. R Pickard. The Kidnapped and the Ransomed. Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery. Syracuse: W. T. Hamilton and New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856.
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Peter Still
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Kate Pickard wrote down the harrowing tale of the life of Peter Stills, who endured countless trials in his ultimately successful quest to buy freedom for his wife and children. Kate Pickard functioned as the “authenticator” of this slave narrative. Her aim was to give Northerners “new illustrations of the horrors that ‘peculiar institution’ which has well nigh subjugated to itself our entire republic.”

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