{"id":722,"date":"2010-12-07T21:38:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T02:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=722"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:08:52","slug":"william-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/07\/william-still\/","title":{"rendered":"1850 (Arguing for Justice) William Still"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William Still (House Divided)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources <\/strong>
\nA key primary source is William Still’s The Underground Rail Road<\/a><\/em> (1872). In addition, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania<\/a> in Philadelphia has Still’s “Journal C of Station No. 2 of the Underground Railroad, 1852-1857<\/a>” and the “Minute Book of the Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia<\/a>.” have been digitized and are available online. Several historians have focused on Still’s work as an abolitionist, including Larry Gara’s “William Still and the Underground Railroad<\/a>” Pennsylvania History<\/em> (1961) and Stephen G. Hall’s “To Render the Private Public: William Still and the Selling of the Underground Rail Road<\/a>,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography<\/em> (2003). Other important sources on the Underground Railroad include Robert Clemens Smedley’s History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania<\/em> <\/a>(1883), Wilbur Henry Siebert’s The Underground Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom<\/a><\/em> (1898), and David Blight’s Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory<\/em> (2004).<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nA historical marker<\/a> for William Still is located in Philadelphia at 244 South 12th Street. While in the city, you can visit Underground Railroad museums at the\u00a0Belmont Mansion<\/a> and the Johnson House<\/a>. In addition, William Still is part of an exhibit at the African American Museum<\/a> and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania<\/a>. Other interesting museums in Philadelphia\u00a0include the National Constitution Center<\/a>. In addition, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center<\/a> is located in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sources A key primary source is William Still’s The Underground Rail Road (1872). In addition, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has Still’s “Journal C of Station No. 2 of the Underground Railroad, 1852-1857” and the “Minute Book of the Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia.” have been digitized and are available online. Several historians have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8648,3973],"tags":[156,13,8663],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-grave-crisis-1801-1861","tag-images","tag-letters","tag-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}