The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

With that, he introduced speaker William Switala, a 52-year borough resident, retired educator and author of three books about the Underground Railroad, a term that “came along as an attempt to ...

Underground Railroad: The Williams Still Story is the story of a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom in the tumultuous years leading up to America ...

Still, who was born in Lawnside, a community of free Blacks who first settled on land donated by Quakers in neighboring Haddonfield in the late 1790s, published the book, The Underground Railroad ...

who based the libretto on Still’s “The Underground Railroad Records.” “I read the book. I found the stories in the book that kind of sang to me, that had hope, humor, love — everything ...