Citizen Stories: Visualizing the Ancestors

She arrived with TWENTY others in one night 😱❤️ ai image “Phillis came from Norfolk in Company with TWENTY others, arriving in this City about the 21st. She is about 30; well made; quite intelligence; good looking, & a good Seamstress. She escaped to save herself from being sold. She was depressed as her late husband died of fever, which is especially sad as he had encouraged her to believe that he would buy her soon. She had been married about 11 years. They had one child who passed away. She once was an accomplished dressmaker in Norfolk who nevertheless lived in fear of being sold—She ready to flee when her husband died. Aided by Captain Fountain, this ―industrious, upright, and intelligent woman escaped to Philadelphia, where the Vigilance Committee helped her re-locate to Boston. By early 1858, she was well-settled there and lived on Beacon Hill.” - William Still, Underground Rail Road Image imagined from the Archives ✨