Jane Johnson was a slave who gained freedom on July 18, 1855, along with her two sons while in Philadelphia. She was helped by William Still and Passmore Williamson, abolitionist of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and its Vigilance Commission. Johnson was believed to have been born into slavery under the name Jane Williams in or […]
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