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This is an autobiographical account of how John Parker risked his life to escape from slavery, and then became a fervent abolitionist, working on a border railroad where hundreds of runaway slaves were helped to freedom. At the age of eight Parker was forced from his family and sold. He tried to escape but was found by his master, then sold again. With much difficulty he earned his way out of slavery, and moved to Ripley, Ohio, a "station" on the Underground Railroad, a conduit to freedom which spirited runaway slaves to a new life, usually across the Canadian border. This tale of Parker's adventures describes his personal battle against slavery, recorded in his own words.
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John Parker was born a slave in Virginia but managed to buy his freedom. He hated the injustice of slavery, and so for about 20 years before the Civil War devoted his life to the dangerous work of helping other blacks escape to freedom. This is one of only a few accounts of a black American's fight against slavery in his own words. Unpublished for nearly a century, it brings to life the American frontier of the mid-18th century in as thrilling a fashion as any John Ford film or historical novel.
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