Join Peerless Rockville, a MPI Member Organization, for its Glenview Mansion Speaker Series

In this book talk on a key architect of the Underground Railroad, Andrew K. Diemer of Temple University will discuss his book on the remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, a little-known abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia – the free city directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line – helping hundreds of people escape from slavery. Among William Still’s passengers was a young girl from Rockville, Ann Maria Weems, who escaped from a slave trader in 1855 with the help of Still’s network and visited Still in Philadelphia on her way to safety in Canada.

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