Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Philadelphia and the Underground Railroad
Black Squirrel Club 1049 Sarah St, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesProfs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Philadelphia and the Underground Railroad,” with Andrew Diemer, professor of history at Towson University and author of Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad has long been cloaked in legend, with that legend only growing over time as filmmakers and novelists have provided their own takes on it and old houses have been claimed to have concealed areas that hid fugitive slaves. Local historians eagerly trace out the tracks of this railroad, identifying its “stations” and “stationmasters” and “conductors,” but other professional historians remain skeptical of such claims.