RARE 1894 ✅ UNDERGROUND SLAVE RAILROAD_HORROR STORIES_MURDER_DIXIE BOUNTY HUNTER

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from preface: The years intervening since the abolition of American slavery leave a majority of our people ignorant of its workings, and of matters connected with it, except as they are cleaned from the pages of history, or from the lips of those now- grown old.
title states volume 1 - but he never published a volume 2
Title:
-  From Dixie to Canada
Romances and Realities of the Underground Railroad
Author
:
-  H U Johnson
Published
:
- Ohio -H U Johnson / Buffalo- Charles Moulton,
1894 - 1st edition
Binding:
- pictorial hardcover
Size:
apx. 7" by 5"  with 194 pages
With 7 full page illustration
and 1 small in text
Contents:
information about the Underground Railroad, giving stories and anecdotes as well as details about places and persons.
Brief intro on slavery
itself, how the slaves were transported, treated, laws, bounty hunters, etc. I put "horror stories" in the description bar/title because the 2 stories I read were
filled with terror and horror!
Johnson gathered the stories within this book from "personal observation, extensive reading, visitations along many of the old lines, and numerous interviews and extensive correspondence with those heroic men and women who dared their fortunes and their personal liberty in the cause of humanity and right.".
I have not read all of it, but I am going to guess it might have
the
'N' word
in it [common at the time]
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. JO NORTON / LAVINIA / A RUSE /
THE ORIGINAL "JERRY" / A COOL WOMAN
CHAPTER II. JACK WATSON
CHAPTER III. UNCLE JAKE
CHAPTER VI. GEORGE GREEN, OR CONSTANCY REWARDED
CHAPTER V. HOW SOL. JONES WAS LEFT
CHAPTER VI. EDWARD HOWARD
CHAPTER VII. PLUCKY CHARLEY
CHAPTER VIII. STATIE LINES
CHAPTER IX. GEORGE GRAY
Condition:
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all of my books are VERY OLD and have 100+ years of wear to varying degrees
very good to excellent condition....
for its age:
boards -
very secure, a few small spots to the back cover
textblock
- pages very secure
outer joints
-  very good
spine ends
- pretty good, some wear & splits to the bottom 1
tips
- very good
back ones / front ones are just a wee bit worn through
inner hinges
-  very good
pages
- very clean - only a few small spots
writing
- a plain white sticker on the front paste down from "
Adams Nervine Asylum
" in Jamaica Plain, Mass. [
read about
the patients at the asylum at the very end of the listing] -- plus a very tiny sticker from the original bookseller
rips /folds
- no rips that I saw / rear free end paper [rfep] is folded in half, 3 dog ears,  ...
plus a few wee tips bent
other:
- I really wish a volume 2 had been published, the bit I did read was exciting, well written, and informative; I could almost see myself there in the story!
-- Do you understand 19th century slave speech?
this book will test you!
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from wiki: The
Adams-Nervine Asylum
was incorporated in 1877 and opened in 1880 in
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
. The estate provided an attractive, picturesque setting, as it was situated on Centre Street, in the neighborhood of Bussy Park and the
Arnold Arboretum
. Having previously been owned by J. Gardiner Weld, it was purchased by Seth Adams with his fortune acquired from his sugar refinery in South Boston. On his death, his estate bequeathed 0,000 for the establishment of a curative institution for the benefit of indigent, debilitated and nervous people: inhabitants of the State
who were not insane
. The estate was vacated in 1976 and left to The Adams Trust.
The first patient of the asylum was admitted on April 11, 1880. The statistics of the asylum show that of those admitted, unmarried women are in a great majority. According to the doctor, the
nervousness in these women was directly related to them out working themselves and waiting upon others. Housework and teaching
contributed to nearly 50 percent of the victims of nervous disorders. Nearly 20 percent of the patients came under the head of "housewives." Among housewives, overwork, care, anxiety, and sleeplessness, incident to domestic afflictions, were the assigned causes. The asylum's only patient who has since become well-known was
Alice James
. Sister to novelist
Henry James
and psychologist
William James
, Alice was treated at the Adams-Nervine during the summer of 1883.
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