The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still after Forty Years of Slavery
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Book title: The Kidnapped and the Ransomed:The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still after Forty Years of Slavery.
Contributors: Kate E. R. Pickard - Author.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press.
Place of publication: Lincoln, NE.
Publication year: 1995.
Page number: xxiii.
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Table of contents
- Contents vii
- Introduction xv
- Title Page xxiii
- Contents xxv
- Introduction to the Bison Books Edition xxvii
- Introduction - Jews in the Antislavery Movement by Maxwell Whiteman 1
- Notes and Sources 65
- Acknowledgments 105
- Chapter I - The Kidnapper 25
- Chapter II - Early Experience in Slavery 31
- Chapter III - Master Nattie 37
- Chapter IV - The Tobacco Factory 43
- Chapter V - The Separation 56
- Chapter VI - Master Nattie's Death 65
- Chapter VII - The Journey to Alabama 70
- Chapter VIII - First Four Years in the South 77
- Chapter IX - Levin's Marriage 85
- Chapter X - Vina's Early History 89
- Chapter XI - Vina's First Year at Mckiernan's 97
- Chapter XII - The Marriage 108
- Chapter XIII - The New Cabin 115
- Ter XIV the Young Mother 121
- Chapter XV - Death of a Kind Master 129
- Chapter XVI - Levin's Death 135
- Chapter XVII - The Jaunt to Florida 138
- Chapter XVIII - A Slave Mother's "Good-Bye." 143
- Chapter XIX - The Mistress' Second Marriage 151
- Chapter XX - The Plantation "Broken Up." 157
- Chapter XXI - Baby Life in the Cabins 163
- Chapter XXII - Facts 167
- Chapter XXIII - Peter's Year at Mckiernan's 175
- Chapter XXIV - Burton's Reign 182
- Chapter XXV - First Four Years in Tuscumbia 199
- Chapter XXVI - Peter Hires His Time 209
- Chapter XXVII - Peter Buys Himself 219
- Chapter XXVII - Journey to Philadelphia 237
- Chapter XXIX - The Kidnapped Boy Restored to His Mother 245
- Chapter XXX - Pieter's Farewell Visit to Alabama 262
- Chapter XXXI - The Escape 279
- Chapter XXXII - The Capture 296
- Chapter XXXIII - Peter Plans to Redeem His Family 307
- Chapter XXXIV - How Did He Get the Money? 319
- Chapter XXXV - Experience of the Returned Fugitives 339
- Chapter XXXVI - They Take Good Care of Their Property. 349
- Chapter XXXVII - The Re-Union 362
- Appendix 377
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