 I piloted them through the forests, mostly by night, — girls, fair and white, dressed as ladies; men and boys, as gentlemen, or servants, — men in women's clothes, and women in men's clothes; boys dressed as girls, and girls as boys; on foot or on...  Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America, 1633-1897 - Page 454by Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks - 1897 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Calvin Fairbank - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 238 pages
...women in men's clothes; boys dressed as girls, and girls as boys; on foot or on horseback, in buggies, carriages, common wagons, in and under loads of hay,...skiffs, on rafts, and often on a pine log. And I never suffered one to be recaptured. None of them, so far as I have learned, have ever come to poverty, or... | |
 | Wilbur Henry Siebert - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 570 pages
...in men's clothes ; boys dressed as girls, and girls as boys ; on foot or on horseback, in buggies, carriages, common wagons, in and under loads of hay, straw, old furniture, boxes and bags ; crossing the Jordan of the slave, swimming or wading chin deep ; or in boats, or skiffs ; on rafts,... | |
 | 1903 - 652 pages
...dressed as girls, and girls as boys ; on foot or on horseback, in buggies, carriages, common waggons, in and under loads of hay, straw, old furniture, boxes and bags ; crossing the Jordan of the slave, swimming or wading chin deep ; or in boats, or skiffs ; on rafts,... | |
 | Ohio - 1911 - 530 pages
...women in men's clothes ; boys dressed as girls and girls as boys ; on foot or on horseback, in buggies, carriages, common wagons, in and under loads of hay,...skiffs, on rafts, and often on a pine log. And I never suffered one to be recaptured. None of them, so far as I have learned, have ever come to poverty or... | |
 | Indiana - 1921 - 436 pages
...says : men's clothes, boys dressed as girls, and girls as boys, on foot or on horseback, in buggies, carriages, common wagons, in and under loads of hay,...skiffs, on rafts and often on a pine log and I never suffered one to be recaptured. For aiding those slaves to escape from their bondage I was twice imprisoned,... | |
 | JACOB PIATT DUNN - 1919 - 694 pages
...women in men's clothes; boys dressed as girls, and girls as boys; on foot or on horseback, in buggies, carriages, common wagons, in and under loads of hay, straw, old furniture, boxes and bags; crossing the Jordan of the slave, swimming or wading chin deep; or in boats or skiffs; on rafts, and... | |
 | Jacob Piatt Dunn - Indiana - 1919 - 628 pages
...women in men's clothes; boys dressed as girls, and girls as boys ; on foot or on horseback, in buggies, carriages, common wagons, in and under loads of hay, straw, old furniture, boxes and bags; crossing the Jordan of the slave, swimming or wading chin deep ; or in boats or skiffs ; on rafts,... | |
 | Ohio - 1911 - 712 pages
...women in men's clothes ; boys dressed as girls and girls as boys ; on foot or on horseback, in buggies, carriages, common wagons, in and under loads of hay,...skiffs, on rafts, and often on a pine log. And I never suffered one to be recaptured. None of them, so far as I have learned, have ever come to poverty or... | |
 | Royal Society of Canada - Humanities - 1902 - 1190 pages
...women in men's clothes; boys dressed as girls, and girls as boys; on foot or on horseback, in buggies, carriages, common wagons, in and under loads of hay, straw, old furniture, boxes and bags ; crossing the Jordan of the slave, swimming or wading chin deep; or in boats, or skiffs ; on rafts,... | |
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