{"product_id":"kidnapped-and-the-ransomed-the-narrative-of-peter-and-vina-still-after-forty-years-of-slavery-9780803292338","title":"Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The Narrative of Peter and Vina Still After Forty Years of Slavery","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1856, \u003cem\u003eThe Kidnapped and the Ransomed\u003c\/em\u003e is the personal recollection of Peter Still, a black slave. He was stolen as a child from his home in New Jersey, yoked to servitude for more than forty years in Kentucky and Alabama, and finally freed with the help of a pair of Jewish brothers. It is the only nineteenth-century slave narrative to show the participation of the Jews in the antislavery movement before the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reader follows Still through a succession of brutal masters, a clandestine courtship, marriage involving separation, births and deaths, the formation of a daring plan for freedom, and harrowing action. No stage drama could be as wrenching as this true rendering of a slave's experience in America. Kate E. R. Pickard was in contact with Still while she taught at the Female Seminary in Tuscumbia, Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaxwell Whiteman was the archival and historical consultant for the Union League of Philadelphia and coauthor, with Edwin Wolf II, of The History of the Jews of Philadelphia from Colonial Times to the Age of Jackson. The original introduction by Rev. Samuel J. May, an abolitionist, has been retained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroducing this Bison Books edition is Nancy L. Grant, a professor of history at Washington University, St. Louis, and author of \u003cem\u003eTVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-7443787\"\u003eKate E. R. Pickard\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.97h x 5.32w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803292338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803292333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/correctionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO002000\"\u003eCultural, Ethnic \u0026amp; Regional | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroducing this Bison Books edition is Nancy L. Grant, a professor of history at Washington University, St. Louis, and author of \u003ci\u003eTVA and Black Americans: Planning for the Status Quo.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45794657927343,"sku":"9780803292338","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9255\/8767\/files\/img_279c50f5-1239-4b32-a5b9-56946a3edfa8.jpg?v=1755585247","url":"https:\/\/www.correctionsbookstore.com\/es\/products\/kidnapped-and-the-ransomed-the-narrative-of-peter-and-vina-still-after-forty-years-of-slavery-9780803292338","provider":"Corrections Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}