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Title: The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Still, William, 1821-1902
Subjects: Underground Railroad Fugitive slaves -- United States Antislavery movements -- United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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WILLIAM LLOVD (JAUKISOX. Sec p. 6G5. LEWIS TAPPAK. rice l>. IJt EMliNENT ANTI-SLAVERY MEN. JAMES MILLER McEIM. 659 mous vote on his motion, disbanded, and handed over the funds in itstreasury to its constituent State associations. Mr. McKim retired from hislabors with impaired health, and has since taken no open part in publicaffairs. He is one of the proprietors of the New York Nation, in theestablishment of which, he took an effective interest. Mr. McKims long and assiduous career in the anti-slavery cause, hasgiven evidence of a peculiar fitness in him for the functions he successivelydischarged. His influence upon men and the times, has been less as aspeakei, than as a writer, and perhaps still less as a writer than as an organ-izer, a contriver of ways and means; fertile in invention, prepared to taketlie initiative, and bringing to the conversion of others, an earnestness ofj)urpose and a force of language that seldom failed of success. In anenterprise where theory and sentim

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