Kate E. R Pickard. The Kidnapped and the Ransomed. Being the Personal
Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," after Forty
Years of Slavery. Syracuse: W. T. Hamilton and New York: Miller, Orton
and Mulligan, 1856.
Peter Still
Kate Pickard wrote down the harrowing tale of the life of Peter Stills,
who endured countless trials in his ultimately successful quest to buy
freedom for his wife and children. Kate Pickard functioned as the “authenticator”
of this slave narrative. Her aim was to give Northerners “new illustrations
of the horrors that ‘peculiar institution’ which has well
nigh subjugated to itself our entire republic.”
- Separation
- Slave Narratives
- Life of Job
- Peter Still
- Solomon Northup
- Thomas Smallwood
- Austin Steward
- Louisa Picquet
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