< div> Originally published in 1856, < i> The Kidnapped and the Ransomed< /i> is the personal recollection of Peter Still, a black slave. He was stolen as a child from his home in New Jersey, yoked to servitude for more than forty years in Kentucky and Alabama, and finally freed with the help of a pair of Jewish brothers. It is the only nineteenth-century slave narrative to show the participation of the Jews in the antislavery movement before the Civil War.< br> < br> < br> < br> The reader follows Still through a succession of brutal masters, a...