His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the underground railroad

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Label

His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the underground railroad

Title remainder

the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the underground railroad

Statement of responsibility

edited by Stuart Seely Sprague

Creator

• Parker, John P., 1827-1900

Contributor

• Sprague, Stuart, 1937-

Subject

• Parker, John P, 1827-1900
• Slaves -- Southern States -- Biography
• Underground Railroad
• Biography
• Southern States
• Parker, John P, 1827-1900
• Slaves
• African American abolitionists
• Freedmen
• African American abolitionists -- Biography
• Underground Railroad
• Freedmen -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

OCO

Dewey number

• 975.004960730092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

E450

LC item number

.P238 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography