The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most
important leaders of the Underground Railroad. William Still: The
Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first
major biography of the free Black abolitionist William Still, who
coordinated the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad and was a
pillar of the Railroad as a whole. Based in Philadelphia, Still
built a reputation as a courageous leader, writer, philanthropist,
and guide for fugitive enslaved people. This monumental work
details Still’s life story beginning with his parents’ escape
from bondage in the early nineteenth century and continuing through
his youth and adulthood as one of the nation’s most important
Underground Railroad agents and, later, as an early civil rights
pioneer. Still worked personally with Harriet Tubman, assisted the
family of John Brown, helped Brown’s associates escape from
Harper’s Ferry after their famous raid, and was a rival to
Frederick Douglass among nationally prominent African American
abolitionists. Still’s life story is told in the broader context
of the anti-slavery movement, Philadelphia Quaker and free black
history, and the generational conflict that occurred between Still
and a younger group of free black activists led by Octavius Catto.
Unique to this book is an accessible and detailed database of the
995 fugitives Still helped escape from the South to the North and
Canada between 1853 and 1861. The database contains twenty
different fields—including name, age, gender, skin color, date of
escape, place of origin, mode of transportation, and literacy—and
serves as a valuable aid for scholars by offering the opportunity
to find new information, and therefore a new perspective, on
runaway enslaved people who escaped on the Eastern Line of the
Underground Railroad. Based on Still’s own writings and a
multivariate statistical analysis of the database of the runaways
he assisted on their escape to freedom, the book challenges
previously accepted interpretations of the Underground Railroad.
The audience for William Still is a diverse one, including scholars
and general readers interested in the history of the anti-slavery
movement and the operation of the Underground Railroad, as well as
genealogists tracing African American ancestors.
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