In his sketch of partly biographical, partly historical significance Mr. Hume, a Garrisonian abolitionist, gives many personal recollections of the days of the “underground railroad,” and with characteristic partisanship recounts his movements among the Missouri radicals. “His long life includes the early struggle for human rights, when abolitionists were accounted lawful game for mobs. The names of its heroes and heroines, and the tribulations they fought through, find record in his pages.” (Outlook.)
“In spite of its motif, the volume contains in accessible form much information concerning all these matters which will be of value to the student.”
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“It is unfortunate that dates and exact particulars are often missing, and are sometimes wrongly given.”
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