Recreated Pages from the 1872 First Edition of ‘The Underground Railroad’ by William Still

Vintage paper
Frame: Stained pine & pine molding
2020

William Still was an African American Philadelphia businessman in the 19th century. Before the Civil War he was a “conductor” on the interstate support system known as the Underground Railroad. Still recorded the accounts of every party of escaped enslaved people that he assisted. In 1872, he published those stories.

This piece is a recreation of the book’s first edition cover page along with the pages that tell the story of how Harriet Shephard, an enslaved woman from Chestertown, used her master’s horses and carriages to escape north with her five children and five other enslaved people.