TY - BOOK AU - Parker,John P. AU - Sprague,Stuart TI - His promised land: the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the underground railroad SN - 0393317188 AV - E450 .P238 1998 U1 - 975.004/96073/0092B 20 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Norton KW - Parker, John P., KW - Slaves KW - Southern States KW - Biography KW - African American abolitionists KW - Underground railroad N1 - 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; Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - 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 ER -