PBS - Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (2012)
PBS - Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (2012)
HDTV | 1280 x 720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3298 Kbps | 55 min 53 s | 1.47 GB
Audio: English AC-3 384 Kbps, 6 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary
HDTV | 1280 x 720 | .MKV/AVC @ 3298 Kbps | 55 min 53 s | 1.47 GB
Audio: English AC-3 384 Kbps, 6 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary
William Still was just a boy when he helped the first one escape. He never knew the man's name; only that he was being hunted by slave catchers.
But in the years ahead, there would be many hundreds more. And Still vowed their stories would never be forgotten.
"The heroism and desperate struggle that many of our people had to endure should be kept green in the memory of this and coming generations."
And he kept his promise. His diaries tell the stories of the great slave exodus known as the Underground Railroad.
Impossible escapes . . . heart-breaking separations . . . and families re-united.
Underground Railroad: The William Still Story tells the dramatic story of William Still, one of the most important yet largely unheralded individuals of the Underground Railroad. Still was determined to get as many runaways as he could to "Freedom’s Land,” smuggling them across the US border to Canada. Bounty hunters could legally abduct former slaves living in the so-called free northern states, but under the protection of the British, Canada provided sanctuary for fugitive slaves.
William Still was a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom in the tumultuous years leading up to America’s Civil War. Still was the director of a complex network of abolitionists, sympathizers and safe houses that stretched from Philadelphia to what is now Southern Ontario. In his fourteen years in the service of the Underground Railroad, he helped nearly eight hundred former slaves to escape.
Still kept meticulous records of the many escapes slaves who passed through the Philadelphia "station." After the Civil War, Still published the secret notes he’d kept in diaries during those years. And to this day, his book contains some of the best evidence we have of the workings of the Underground Railroad, detailing the freedom seekers who used it, including where they came from, how they escaped and the families they left behind.
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PBS - Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (2012)
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