{"product_id":"rudisel-slave-narratives-underground-rr","title":"Rudisel-Slave Narratives Underground Rr","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Loved this and I'm not a big history buff. This was an eye-opener. This will make you have an even deeper respect for those who went through slavery and all they endured.\" \u0026amp;; Pollard HouseDuring the 1850s and 1860s more than 100,000 people escaped slavery in the American South by following the Underground Railroad, a complex network of secret routes and safe houses. This inexpensive compilation of firsthand accounts offers authentic insights into the Civil War era and African-American history with compelling narratives by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and lesser-known refugees.Thirty selections include the story of Eliza Harris, \"The Slave Woman Who Crossed the Ohio River on the Drifting Ice with Her Child in Her Arms,\" whose experience inspired a memorable scene in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Other accounts include that of Henry \"Box\" Brown, who hid in a crate mailed to Philadelphia abolitionists; Theophilus Collins's escape after \"A Desperate, Bloody Struggle \u0026amp;; Gun, Knife and Fire Shovel, Used by Infuriated Master\"; excerpts from Harriet Jacobs's 1861 narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and the remarkable flight of William and Ellen Craft, \"Female Slave in Male Attire, Fleeing as a Planter, with Her Husband as Her Body Servant.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45166280442035,"sku":"9780486780610","price":476.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/81hN4zOMBCL.jpg?v=1764939038","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/rudisel-slave-narratives-underground-rr","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}