The Underground Railroad, had many conductors to help get slaves to freedom. According to the Eastern Illinois University resources, “The Underground Railroad was a secret system developed to aid fugitive slaves on their escape to freedom”(Para 2, page 1). The Railroad, was mostly led by free black northerners, helping the enslaved blacks from the south to escape their petrifying lives and become free. William Still, who was a black abolitionist and a successful writer. Blacks knowing how to read and write was very uncommon in this period, but Still could do both. He was a huge contributor to helping the enslaved get to freedom, helping even Harriet Tubman, one of the most remembered conductors of the Underground Railroad. In the Underground
