The kidnapped and the ransomed

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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

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Description: The kidnapped and the ransomed. Being the personal recollections of Peter Still and his wife "Vina," after forty years of slavery. By Mrs. Kate E. R. Pickard. With an introd. by Rev. Samuel J. May; and an appendix by William H. Furness, D.D.
Names: Pickard, Kate E. R. (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1856; Place: Syracuse, New York; Publisher: W. T. Hamilton, Miller, Orton and Mulligan
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc Rare 326.92 (Still) P
Topics: Slavery -- Kentucky
Genres: Books; Illustrations
Physical Description: Extent: Xxiii, 25-409 pages, 3 pages illustrations (including frontispiece) ; 19 cm; Engravings
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR13117042-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11662309; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 649ba7f0-c60a-012f-e2a5-58d385a7bc34