{"id":4469,"date":"2023-04-29T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:20:40","slug":"still-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/still-william\/","title":{"rendered":"Still, William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Still<\/strong> (1821-1902) was a central figure in the Underground Railroad, both as an antebellum vigilance leader based in Philadelphia and as a historian of the network following the Civil War.\u00a0 Still was born free in New Jersey to parents who had been enslaved in Maryland.\u00a0 He came to Philadelphia in the 1840s, securing clerical work with the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.\u00a0 During the 1850s, Still served as operational leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1837-philadelphia-vigilance-committee\/\">Philadelphia Vigilance Committee<\/a>, keeping detailed records which later became the basis for his groundbreaking memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1872-william-still-the-underground-railroad\/\"><em>The Underground Railroad<\/em> (1872)<\/a>.\u00a0 When he died in 1902, the <em>New York Times<\/em> labeled him, &#8220;Father of the Underground Railroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/reconsidering-the-underground-railroad-in-canada-west-barker\/\">Barker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/myths-of-the-underground-railroad-bordewich\/\">Bordewich<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/underground-railroad-historiography-crew\/\">Crew<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/foner-on-middle-atlantic-region-foner\/\">Foner<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/escaping-in-and-around-washington-dc-maryland-virginia-harrold\/\">Harrold<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/women-on-the-underground-railroad-larson\/\">Larson<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/the-atlantic-coastal-freedom-network-newby-alexander\/\">Newby-Alexander<\/a>\u00a0 \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/introduction-pinsker\/\">Pinsker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/ugrr-operative\/\">UGRR Operative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Still (1821-1902) was a central figure in the Underground Railroad, both as an antebellum vigilance leader based in Philadelphia and as a historian of the network following the Civil War.\u00a0 Still was born free in New Jersey to parents who had been enslaved in Maryland.\u00a0 He came to Philadelphia in the 1840s, securing clerical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ugrr-operative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}