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Title: My native land : the United States: its wonders, its beauties, & its people; with descriptive notes, character sketches, folk lore, traditions, legends & history, for the amusement of the old & the instruction of the young
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Cox, James, 1851-1901
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel United States -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Philadelphia : Blair Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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er, was effected, and the secedingmembers took their seats on the following day. Feeling,however, ran very high. Some people returned fugitiveslaves to their owners, while others established what wasthen known as the underground railway. This was a com-bination between Abolitionists in various parts, andinvolved the feeding and housing of slaves, who werepassed on from house to house and helped on their road toCanada. Much excitement was caused in 1841 by the shipCreole, which sailed from Richmond with a cargo of 135slaves from the Virginia plantation. Near the BahamaIslands one of the slaves named Washington, as by theway a good many thousand slaves were named from timeto time, headed a rebellion. The slaves succeeded in over-powering the crew and in confining the captain and the whitepassengers. They forced the captain to take the boat toNew Providence, where all except the actual members ofthe rebelling crowd were declared free. Joshua Giddings, of Ohio, offered a resolution in the
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