The Stills were the prototypical African American family who lived,
worked, and sometimes prospered before, during, and after the Civil
War. History is replete with the selfless contributions of these
black individuals. Beginning in the waning decades of the 18th
century on Maryland's Eastern Shore, a slave named Levin Steel
confronted his slave master with a demand his owner could not
ignore-his urge to be a free man. He bought himself, settled in the
Pines of Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1806, and was soon
joined there by his self-emancipated wife, Charity. The dynasty
these hardworking former slaves began in 1807 produced a bevy of
freeborn children, who were the ancestors of our central character,
William Still.
Although it was William who ran station two, the hub of the
American Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, beginning in the
1840s, his siblings accomplished a staggering list of professional,
entrepreneurial, social welfare, and legal activities while the
mass of American slaves lay in chains in the South. After the Civil
War, when emancipation came to the slaves, William Still, a
successful coal merchant, used his own money to finance a host of
civil rights and other social reforms to elevate the freed men
arriving in the city.
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