His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad AUTH-12092858 ISBN10: 1439195269

ISBN10: 1439195269

this volume collects together all of Harry Crosby's published prose poems

Publisher: Touri Language Learning

ISBN10: 1942052111

His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad AUTH-12092858 ISBN10: 1439195269In the words of an African American conductor on the Underground Railroad, His Promised Land is the unusual and stirring account of how the war against slavery was fought and sometimes won. John P. Parker (1827 1900) told this dramatic story to a newspaperman after the Civil War. He recounts his years of slavery, his harrowing runaway attempt, and how he finally bought his freedom. Eventually moving to Ripley, Ohio, a stronghold of the abolitionist