1880 AUSTIN BEARSE. Rare Autobiography of the Sea Captain of Underground Railroad. ZZAffordableMiscellanea Scholastic

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Palmerston would smile

Be proud of him and let all folks know you worships him

" "Innocence

an extract from a speech by Frederick Douglass

1880 AUSTIN BEARSE. Rare Autobiography of the Sea Captain of Underground Railroad. ZZAffordableMiscellanea ScholasticAn exceptionally rare autobiographical work by Austin Bearse [1808 1881] sea captain from Cape Cod who provided transportation for fugitive slaves as part of the Underground Railroad in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, as a youth he worked occasionally as a mate on slave trading vessels off the coast of South Carolina and saw first hand how cruelly the slaves were treated. Decades later, he recalled in