WILLIAM STILL

WILLIAM STILL: ‘AMANUENSIS’ OF AFRICAN AMERICANS FREEDOM Many escaping slaves left mules, horses in the stalls, preferring to flee afoot. But a few slaves not only took mules and horses, but wagons and carriages too to expedite escape. Others are even known to have fled by boat, trains, ships, or box! Read the iconic UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by William Still (1877) to learn how we got over organized, secretly, systematically, as blacks, and got away by the thousands from slavery, by any means necessary. Many depots and entrepôt could lead to freedom for you and your family . William Still’s story is so amazing . It was nothing short of being fantastic, but real, the way it intersects with so many heroic and wonderful people. The “amanuensis” (scribe) of African American philosophers and people was the writer/record-keeper, William Still, of Philadelphia and New Jersey.