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Chief Conductor
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Freedom's Land
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Epilogue
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Punishment
1:46

Coded Spirituals
2:27

Slavery and Freedom
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Underground Railroad: The William Still Story
Underground Railroad: The William Still Story
Underground Railroad: The Williams Still Story is the story of a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom in the tumultuous years leading up to America’s Civil War. William Still was the director of a complex network of abolitionists, sympathizers and safe houses that stretched from Philadelphia to what is now Southern Ontario.