Short Biography: William Still's Early Life

Born in Cedar Run District of Fauquier County, Virginia in 1905, William was Walter and Lydia Ball's first child. Walter and his brother Henry, as most black Virginian including Earnest at the turn of the century, were farm labourers. They found work between Calverton and Nokesville about 12 km south west of the counties seat Warrenton till Henry landed his own small farm between Catletts and Nokesville. Before William turned 15 he lost

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William Still was born on October 7, 1821 in Burlington County, New Jersey. He was born free because his father purchased his freedom. However, his parents were enslaved and later gained freedom. His mother escaped from slavery in Maryland with her two children. In 1844, 23 year old William moved to Philadelphia where as a self taught free man, he became employed in multiple jobs and soon joined the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. In 1847, he married Letitia George whom he had four children with. He committed fourteen years to this society and the Underground Railroad, helping house runaways in his home. In 1852, William became the chairman of the Vigilance Committee. The committee helped in the aid and support of fugitive slaves before and during the Fugitive Slave Act, offering financial assistance and boarding for fugitive slaves. He conducted several interviews and

William Still was a free-born Black who became an abolitionist movement leader and writer during the

By the mid 1800’s nearly four million blacks were held as slaves in the southern United States. Life was a nightmare for slaves: the work was hard, their masters cruel, and their liberties stripped away. This turmoil caused slaves to try and escape. There were numerous ways a slave could flee, but not without the risk of road blocks and lashes around every corner. Creativity, money, intelligence, and courage were just some of the attributes slaves had to have when trying to escape.

Charles Bird, George Dorsey, Angeline Brown, Albert Brown, Charles Brown, and Jane Scott traveled to the anti-slavery office by carriage and then by horseback and walking. Not long into their trip, some white people found them and smashed their carriage. The group of escaping slaves knocked the white people out and continued on horseback. When their horses got tired out they finished their journey on foot.

So in this research people, I will talk about William Still he was born in Burlington, New Jersey. So his father has been enslaved and purchased his freedom and he changes his name to still to protect his wife. He had formal education. In 1844, He moved to Philadelphia. In 1847, His first job was as a clerk and janitor for Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition Slavey. So his brother Peter who was left behind, His mother escaped like 40 years earlier.

During a time in American history when laws were established that prohibited blacks, and especially enslaved blacks, to read and to write, one of William Still’s important accomplishments was teaching himself how to read and write. William had very little education but read everything he was able to and studied as much grammar as he could. Learning to read and write became an important form of black resistance to slavery. William was given the authority to document black resistance to slavery as well as to letters to his family and friends. He became a champion of civil rights in the North and worked endlessly to improve race relations. In 1859, William wrote a letter to the press protesting the racial discrimination that African Americans

As the years of slavery pass by, many slaves want to try to get rid of this horrid society. So they started to rebel. There were many ways that the slaves rebel and tried to get freedom. For example, a young slave named Henry Brown escaped his slave owners by shipping himself to another state where he can get help. According to records, after his wife and children had been shipped away, Brown wanted to leave slavery to run away from the society. With a help from a few friends, Brown was put into a box and was shipped from his hometown to Philadelphia. It took 27 tiresome hours until he came to his destination. During the trip, he was tossed and turned from side to side, no room in the box to move

After abolitionists said that they could not understand about the slave system, Weld himself actively lead a field investigation to fulfill their curiosity. Then in1833 with Arthur Tappan and Lewis Tappan they organized a American Anti-Slavery Society and led the abolitionists to ban the slavery from the front. In addition, many slaves did escape, subway that slavery abolitionists made provided convenience and hopes toward a slaves escaping to find a freedom. Slave trying to escape had to move along the North shinning Star, moving to one abolitionists’s house to another’s. Some also crossed a ocean to reach North. Trackers appeared frequently in underground railroad to catch to catch slaves on a run. And people who helps on slaves escaping knew that the cost of helping slaves will be very big and heavy. However there was a person to guide the path in the subway even though in these high risks. They were called Moses in the jargon. Well known as another name of Harriet Tubman, who was also a slave escaped from a farm of east coast, Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman, the symbol of the Underground Railroad helped three hundred slaves to escape form the harsh

William Tecumseh Sherman was destined to a noticeable family in Lancaster, Ohio, on February, 8, 1820, one of eleven kids. His dad, Charles Sherman, was a fruitful legal counselor and Ohio Supreme Court equity. At the point when William was nine years of age, his father died suddenly, leaving the family with few finances. He was raised by a family companion, Thomas Ewing, a representative from Ohio and unmistakable individual from the Whig Party. There has been much theory on Sherman's middle name. In his journals, he composed that his dad gave him the name William Tecumseh since he respected the Shawnee boss.

Runaway slaves mostly escaped through an agency called the Underground railroad. The Underground Railroad was made up of secret routes that helped slaves travel undetected. A person can not travel non stop so they had safe houses ran by people who hid them from their masters and fed them. Also, a very influential person during this time period was Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was a slave herself but escaped to freedom, she did not stay in the free states she risked her life to go back and help others escape to freedom along side her. However, not all slaves that tried to escape succeeded if caught here was major consequences. If the slave was caught they could have been beaten when returned to their master sometimes even beaten to death. Another form of punishment was being sold, if caught a master usually sold the slave to someone else not wanting to risk them escaping again. If slavery wouldn't have happened there would not be a need to runaway to be free. Truly, slavery was the backbone for the inequality and a person's views are influential to the

He has a wife and child and was treated fairly under the care of Miss Watson. Unfortunately, Miss Watson was offered a great sum to sell him to a nearby plantation. Knowing the harsh treatment of the owner of that plantation and the thought of being separated from his family, sparked the motive for him to run away. Slave catchers have been on the prowl to find him ever since. His goal is to set his family free from the shackles of slavery. He wants to be seen as a human and treated like everyone else. As a slave his life is hard, dealing with discrimination and racism every day.

Slavery has long been a divided issue for the country. William Lloyd Garrison was one of the reformers that led the crusade against slavery. At the beginning, Garrison worked as a newspaper editor in Baltimore. Although he originally supported the American Colonization Society’s gradual approach to ending slavery, he soon realized that gradual approach was not effectively end slavery; rather, radical approach was necessary and inevitable. His goal was to bring a complete and immediate end to slavery, calling for an uncompensated emancipation of slaves. In 1831, Garrison started his own antislavery newspaper called the Liberator. Facing with the issue of slavery, Garrison was determined and unyielding. “I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising

Later in his life one thing that people do not face today is slavery well when squanto was little slavery was still Allowed and that is what just what happened to squanto he was with his friends and a