The Forgotten Father of the Underground Railroad

In the more than 100 years since his death, William Still has been marginalized, sometimes even forgotten, by histories of the movements to which he contributed so much. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Swarthmore College, Wikimedia Commons under public domain Peter Freedman saw danger in the unfamiliar faces around him. It was August 1850, and he had come to Philadelphia looking for parents he had not…