{"id":169,"date":"2008-07-09T12:36:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T17:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:54:58","slug":"advertisement-for-william-still%e2%80%99s-underground-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/07\/09\/advertisement-for-william-still%e2%80%99s-underground-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertisement for William Still\u2019s Underground Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/07\/ugrr1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-170\" title=\"William Still, UGRR\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/07\/ugrr1-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/07\/ugrr1-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/07\/ugrr1.png 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I want to highlight <a href=\"http:\/\/dbs.ohiohistory.org\/africanam\/page1.cfm?ItemID=14041\" target=\"_blank\">an advertisement<\/a> for William Still\u2019s <em>Underground Railroad<\/em> that is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiohistory.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio Historical Society<\/a> website. Published in Cleveland <em>Gazette<\/em> on November 11, 1883, the ad claims that Still\u2019s book \u201c[was] one which must prove interesting and profitable to every reader.\u201d If students read excerpts from Still\u2019s book, some might want to see how the publisher tried to sell it in the 1880s. You can also get the full text of the <em>Underground Railroad<\/em> from <a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/theirownwords\/title\/0088.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Their Own Words<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to highlight an advertisement for William Still\u2019s Underground Railroad that is available on the Ohio Historical Society website. Published in Cleveland Gazette on November 11, 1883, the ad claims that Still\u2019s book \u201c[was] one which must prove interesting and profitable to every reader.\u201d If students read excerpts from Still\u2019s book, some might want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,171],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-historic-periodicals","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}