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Title: History of the Underground railroad in Chester and the neighboring counties of Pennsylvania
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Smedley, R. C. (Robert Clemens), 1832-1883
Subjects: Underground Railroad African Americans
Publisher: Lancaster, Pa., Office of the Journal
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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cian, with the knowledge and skill which many willingnurses lacked, she was everywhere in request, and, for-getful of her own needs, she only remembered to supplyas far as in her power, those of the suffering aroundher. It was not at the South, but amid her own kin-dred that she labored until nature would bear no more.Then she laid down in death, and the martyr soul rosebeyond our vision, leaving an agonized memory of whatshe was and what she might have been. We do not *At Beaufort, S. C. 190 HISTORY OF THE question was it wise or well. We only state that it was,and that such were the spirits nurtured by the opposi-tion to slavery. Young persons through an illimitablecondemnation of an illimitable wrong, rose to theheight of their power for time, or else they passed toeternity, and God knows which was best. We onlyknow that the silent dead sometimes influence us morethan the living. Children yet unborn may be lifted toa higher plane by spiritual kinship with Emma J. Fus-sell, aged 23.
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NORRIS MARIS. CHAPTER XII. NoRRis Maris.—Lewis Peart.—A Dream.—Emmon Kimber.—Sketchof Experiences of Rachel Harris.—Cunningliaras Rache.—Abbie Kimber.—Gertrude Kimber Burleigh. NORRIS MARIS.*(Fifth Month 24th, 1803.) While Norris Maris lived on the farm of EstherLewis and daughters, he was ever willing and ready toassist the fugitive, whether at night when fatigued fromthe days labor, or in cold, dreary or stormy weatherwhen less benevolent hearts would seek their own pro-tection and comfort rather than to endure exposure suchas that merely to aid a colored stranger in securing lib-erty. He never looked upon it as a trouble; scarcely asa duty; but simply as a blessed privilege to secure thefreedom and happiness of even a few individuals of anoppressed and down-trodden people. In 1854 he purchased a farm near Kimberton, andhis home at once became another station, and con-tinued as such until the government no longer recog-nized the negro as chattel property. Slaves came t

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