One Day, Levin... He Be Free: William Still and the Underground Railground

Although Levin Still bought his freedom, his wife had to take hers by running away. Countless other blacks did the same via the Underground Railroad, and scores of them were helped in Philadelphia by Levins youngest son, William Still. This fearless man was Executive Secretary of the citys Anti-slavery Society; in this position he kept meticulous records of the fugitives he aided and sent on to Canada. In 1872, almost a decade after Emancipation, he organized his accounts and published on of the major documents of the times, The Underground Railroad. Lurey Kahn, whose mother was the granddaughter of Williamss brother, describes Stills lifelong efforts on behalf of his fellow blacks as she quotes liberally from his own remarkable records. William Still died in 1902, a prominent Philadelphian.