Tags: Musical.
Stand by the River is a musical written by Joanne and Mark Sutton-Smith based on the life of abolitionist William Still his liberation of Jane Johnson and her two sons from slavery in 1855 and the federal trial that summer. A member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia and chairman of its Vigilance Committee Still took Johnson and her sons from her master and into hiding just before their ship was to depart.
