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Anglický jazyk
William Still and the Underground Railroad
Autor: Khan Lurey Khan
The Stills were the prototypical African
American family who lived, worked, and sometimes prospered
before, during, and after the Civil War. History is replete
with the selfless contributions of these black individuals.
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The Stills were the prototypical African
American family who lived, worked, and sometimes prospered
before, during, and after the Civil War. History is replete
with the selfless contributions of these black individuals.
Beginning in the waning decades of the 18th century on
Maryland's Eastern Shore, a slave named Levin Steel
confronted his slave master with a demand his owner could
not ignore-his urge to be a free man. He bought himself,
settled in the Pines of Burlington County, New Jersey, in
1806, and was soon joined there by his self-emancipated
wife, Charity. The dynasty these hardworking former slaves
began in 1807 produced a bevy of freeborn children, who were
the ancestors of our central character, William
Still.
Although it was William who ran station two,
the hub of the American Underground Railroad in
Philadelphia, beginning in the 1840s, his siblings
accomplished a staggering list of professional,
entrepreneurial, social welfare, and legal activities while
the mass of American slaves lay in chains in the South.
After the Civil War, when emancipation came to the slaves,
William Still, a successful coal merchant, used his own
money to finance a host of civil rights and other social
reforms to elevate the freed men arriving in the city.
- Vydavateľstvo: iUniverse
- Rok vydania: 2010
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9781440186264
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