The Underground Railroad, Part 3: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Underground Railroad, Part 3, credited to William Still, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Underground Railroad, Part 3, by William Still. "Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various methods adopted for circumventing the enemies of freedom, and told, as it is, with great simplicity and natural feeling, the narrative is one which cannot but make a deep impression. Thrilling incidents, heroic adventures and noble deeds of self-sacrifice light up every page, and will enlist the heartiest sympathies of all generous souls. It was eminently just that such a record of one of the most remarkable phases of the struggle against slavery should be prepared, that the memory of the noble originators and supporters of the railroad might be kept green, and posterity enabled to form a true conception of the necessity that called it into existence, and of the difficulties under which its work was performed. The labor of compiling could not have fallen into more appropriate or better qualified hands." The Philadelphia Inquirer William Still is often called the Father of the Underground Railroad. Over 14 years, he helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom in Canada. Still was committed to preserving the stories of the bondmen and he kept careful records of the many escaped slaves who passed through the Philadelphia “station”. The Underground Railroad was published in 1871 from Still’s records and diaries. In bringing you these stories, Librivox volunteers are reading from the 1878 edition. (Summary by MaryAnn)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Underground Railroad, Part 3
• Author credits: William Still
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 8:33:13

Catalogue topics

• underground railroad
• slavery
• slave
• escape
• runaway
• Philadelphia
• boxcar
• emancipation

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - Deep Furrows on the Back; Peter Mathews; 'Moses' Arrives with Six Passengers — 15:58
2. 02 - Escaped from 'A Worthless Sot'; William Butcher; 'White Enough to Pass'; Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses — 13:30
3. 03 - Eight and a Half Months Secreted; Arthur Fowler; Sundry Arrivals — 16:31
4. 04 - Sundry Arrivals About January 1st, 1855 — 17:40
5. 05 - Slave Holder in Maryland with Three Colored Wives — 4:31
6. 06 - Captain F. Arrives with Nine Passengers — 16:58
7. 07 - Owen and Otho Taylor's Flight with Horses; Heavy Reward — 14:32
8. 08 - Captain F. Arrives with Fourteen 'Prime Articles' on Board, Part 1 — 14:42
9. 09 - Captain F. Arrives with Fourteen 'Prime Articles' on Board, Part 2 — 16:51
10. 10 - Sundry Arrivals, Latter Part of December 1855 and Beginning of January 1856 — 13:22
11. 11 - Part of the Arrivals in December, 1855 — 13:00
12. 12 -The Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850 — 18:05
13. 13 - The Slave Hunting Tragedy in Lancaster County, in September 1851, Part 1 — 22:18
14. 14 - The Slave Hunting Tragedy in Lancaster County, in September 1851, Part 2 — 26:04
15. 15 - The Slave Hunting Tragedy in Lancaster County, in September 1851, Part 3 — 21:22
16. 16 - William and Ellen Craft, Part 1 — 16:22
17. 17 - William and Ellen Craft, Part 2 — 13:46
18. 18 - Arrivals from Richmond; Passengers from North Carolina — 15:26
19. 19 - Thomas Clinton, Sauney Pry and Benjamin Ducket; Arrivals in April 1856 — 15:47
20. 20 - Five from Georgetown Cross Roads; Passengers from Maryland; Arrival from Maryland — 16:42
21. 21 - Arrival from Washington, D.C., Unionville, Maryland and Cambridge, 1857 — 12:24
22. 22 - Benjamin Ross and His Wife Harriet; Arrival from Virginia and Delaware, 1857 — 9:12
23. 23 - Arrival from Alexandria and Unionville, 1857 — 14:07
24. 24 - From New Orleans, 1857 — 12:30

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