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He was apprenticed to a plantation owner where he was obliged to help in administering their slaves.
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Excerpt from The Under-Ground Railroad The Author of the following work is a gentleman of colour, who was born and reared in North Carolina, United States. In early life he was left a destitute orphan, and had but few educational advantages. By the local authorities of Guildford County, in that state, he was bound apprentice to a Planter, whose land was cultivated by the unrequited toil of a company of his enslaved fellow-creatures, whose labour was enforced by the whip, and whose faults, real or fictitious, were punished by torture. His master was also a heartless trader in human beings. It affords a glimpse into Slave morals, that though our Author was freeborn, and, in consequence of his mother being an Indian, legally exempt from bondage, it was necessary to provide expressly in the indenture by which he was bound, against his being kidnapped or ensnared into Slavery. In this service he mis-spent twelve precious years of his life, and became inured to the inflicting of the cruelties attendant upon Man-stealing and Slave-driving. During the last five years of the time, the entire managenent of the business was committed to his hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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He was apprenticed to a plantation owner where he was obliged to help in administering their slaves.
He is said to be the only writer who wrote about the railroad while it was still illegal. Mitchell was raised as an orphan in North Carolina. His birth date is about 1826.
He became involved in the resistance to slavery in 1843 when he was among a crowd of people who intimidated some bounty hunters who were returning an escaped slave to his owners.
The man regained his freedom when his captors fled. Mitchell was an active supporter of the movement that was smuggling escaped slaves from the American South to Canada before the 1860s American Civil War.
He said that he was most active when he was living in the city of Washington Court House in Fayette County, Ohio. His house was a safe house for John Mason who brought 265 escapees to Mitchell"s home.
Mitchell is said to be the only writer who wrote about the Underground Railroad while it was still illegal, although others had described it at an earlier date.
The British writer Harriet Martineau had mentioned the concept in 1837 and the British abolitionist Joseph Sturge wrote about it in 1841, but they did not name lieutenant Mitchell"s book took the name of the Underground Railroad into his book"s title, although the phrase had been used before by James Stirling in 1857. Mitchell"s book was published in London in 1860.
Mitchell"s book garnered recommendations from leading abolitionists including the American activist William Howard Day and the British politician George Thompson.
Mitchell was a minister in Toronto with the American Baptist Free Mission Society. He visited Britain in 1859 where he toured with the Reverend William Troy.
The two of them both wrote books and they went on lecture tours of anti-slavery groups in Ireland, Scotland and England and gathered funds for their churches in Canada. Mitchell"s book particularly thanked the Glasgow Emancipation Society who supported his work and his book
Mitchell and his family are presumed to have returned to America.
One record shows that he died before 1879 but there is no further detail.
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