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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--NARRATIVES.) PICKARD, MRS. KATE E.R., The Kidnapped and the Ransomed, being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife "Vina". . . With an Introduction by the Rev. Samuel May. Engraved frontispiece and half-title. 409 pages, 6 page publisher's catalogue at rear. Thick 8vo, original blind-stamped patterned plum colored cloth, lightly faded; front hinge started but firm. Syracuse, NY, 1856
first edition of an important slave narrative. The story of the kidnapping of Vina Still like that of Solomon Northup was all too common. Free blacks had to be very careful where they walked because slavers were constantly kidnapping free blacks and taking them to the large slave markets in Washington and Richmond where they would disappear into slavery on some plantation where their voice could not be heard. This particular narrative is well laid out with a précis of events described for each chapter.
