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By Audrey M. Peterson
Assistant Professor Malcolm Merriweather and Adjunct Assistant Professor Laquita Mitchell performed in lauded musical work based on the writings of abolitionist William Still.
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In the shadow of the widely-told story of Harriet Tubman, who brought more than a thousand people to freedom during the era of American slavery, is that of William Still, another African-American abolitionist whose home in Philadelphia acted as a terminus for many of the formerly enslaved on the Underground Railroad. The stories of enslavement and eventual escape told to Still by those who found their way to freedom were eventually published in 1872 in