{"product_id":"william-still-the-underground-railroad-and-the-angel-at-philadelphia","title":"William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Stills 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 nations 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 Browns associates escape from Harpers Ferry after their famous raid  and was a rival to Frederick Douglass among nationally prominent African American abolitionists. Stills 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 fieldsincluding name  age  gender  skin color  date of escape  place of origin  mode of transportation  and literacyand 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 Stills 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946658558005,"sku":"ByrdShop_026820036X","price":28.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780268200367.jpg?v=1769959616","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/william-still-the-underground-railroad-and-the-angel-at-philadelphia","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}