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The Underground Railroad

  • William Still
1879
People's Publishing Company

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Featured Excerpts

  • Cover of "Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad"  by Andrew K. Diemer
    Book Review

    A Historian Forgotten

    A new biography of William Still show how the abolitionist documented the underground railroad as he helped people through it.
    by Bennett Parten via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 7, 2023
  • The “Arrival of freedmen and their families at Baltimore, Maryland” circa 1865.
    Book Review

    “The Times Requires This Testimony”: William Still’s 'The Underground Railroad'

    Still’s detailed record of radical abolitionist action remains a model for creating freedom out of community and community out of freedom.
    by Julia W. Bernier via Black Perspectives on December 5, 2022

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Illustration of “Twenty-eight fugitives escaping from the eastern shore of Maryland”

The Supernatural and the Mundane in Depictions of the Underground Railroad

Navigating the line between historical records and mystic imagery to understand the Underground Railroad.
by Andrew K. Diemer via The Panorama on April 4, 2022
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