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Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely and her brother learned to read from this book, which collected slave narratives, and it included the story of their ancestors, William and Ellen Craft.
My brother and I both learned to read from a book called Underground Railroad that was written by William Still, who collected slave narratives from around the country.
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Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely and her brother learned to read from this book, which collected slave narratives, and it included the story of their ancestors, William and Ellen Craft.
My brother and I both learned to read from a book called Underground Railroad that was written by William Still, who collected slave narratives from around the country.
And the story of my ancestors, William and Ellen Craft, who escaped from slavery in 1848 from Macon, Georgia, they have a chapter in that book.