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His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad By John P. Parker, Stuart Steely Sprague (Editor) Preface by Stuart Seely Sprague An unusual and stirring account of the rarely told story of how the war against slavery was fought-and sometimes won. This narrative, never before published, was told to a newspaperman after the Civil War. It follows John P. Parker (1827-1900), a determined young slave who at the age of eight was forced from his family in Virginia and made to walk to Alabama. Parker recounts dramatically how he helped fugitive slaves cross the Ohio River from Kentucky and go north to Freedom. He risked his life frequently to fight for the freedom of his people. In the face of massive inequities against African-American citizens of the nineteenth century, Parker went on to become a self-trained iron manufacturer, establish the Phoenix Foundry, and invent and obtain patents for new machinery, becoming one of the few African Americans to obtain patents before 1900. Paperback: 165 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; New Ed edition (January 1, 1998) ISBN: 0393317188 Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches |
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