Charity Still

Sidney (later renamed Charity) was born enslaved in the eighteenth century on a plantation owned by Saunders Griffin in the Caroline County, Maryland.

On her next escape, she left her two sons, Levin Jr. and Peter, in the care of their grandmother and reached New Jersey again with her two daughters, Mahalia and Kitturah.

The older sons remained enslaved; one died from cruel treatment, and the other, Peter, eventually gained his freedom and reunited with Charity Still in 1850.

[5] Levin and Charity Still moved into a secluded area of the Pine Barrens, Shamong Township, New Jersey, where their other children were born to prevent another kidnapping.

Another son, James Still, was denied formal medical training and worked as an herbalist healer in the African-American community.