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His promised land :

Parker, John P., 1827-1900.

His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the underground railroad / edited by Stuart Seely Sprague. - New York : Norton, 1998. - 165 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

School Library Journal, May 1997 Library Journal, October 1996 Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), April 1998 Pub Weekly, September 1996 Booklist, November 1996 Kirkus Review, September 1996 Multicultural Review, June 1997

Narrative of John P. Parker, a slave who was sold away from his family in Virginia at the age of eight, telling of his life in the household of an Alabama doctor, his escape and recapture, how he was able to buy his freedom, and his work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Adult Follett Library Resources

0393317188

E450 / .P238 1998

975.004/96073/0092 B

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