The 1838 Black Metropolis is rich with discoveries...buildings that reveal themselves as historic sites, people who have done incredible things, and places where it all happened.
In September 1851, a man in his 50s boarded a train from Philadelphia heading toward Lancaster County. His name was Samuel Williams, and he had been sent by William Still to warn a self-protection network in Christiana that a slaveholder named Edward Gorsuch was coming - with a warrant, a notorious slave catcher named Kline, and a posse of armed white men - to drag four Black men back into bondage. Williams sat down in the same car as the whole party. He listened to everythin
