Peter still biography
Biography: Peter Still was born on the plantation of Saunders Griffin, a planter from Maryland's Eastern Shore, in to parents Levin and Sidney Steel.
Peter Still was an American former slave, who secured his own freedom in and subsequently collected enough money to purchase the freedom of his wife....
Peter Still
Former slave and subject of slave narrative
Peter Still (February 22, 1801[1] – January 10, 1868[2]), was an American former slave, who secured his own freedom in 1850 and subsequently collected enough money to purchase the freedom of his wife and three children in 1854.
His efforts were documented in the book: The kidnapped and the ransomed; being the personal recollections of Peter Still and his wife "Vina," after forty years of slavery, which his biographer Kate E. R. Pickard published in 1856.
Biography
Still was born a slave to parents Sidney and Levin (formerly Steel) on a plantation owned by Saunders Griffin on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.[3] Peter and his eldest brother Levin Jr.
were sold by their owner at ages eight and six respectively, shortly after their mother had fled for a second time.[4] After many years in Kentucky, the brothers were eventually sold to various slave-owning families in Florence, Alab