VERY GOOD: The book's spine, pages, covers, and dust jacket are in excellent condition. There are remainder marks on the top and bottom edges (see photo).
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From the dust jacket: "This narrative, never before published, was told to a newspaperman after the Civil War. It follows John P. Parker (1827-1900), a determined young slave who at the age of eight was forced from his family in Virginia and made to walk to Alabama. ...
"Parker is one of the few African Americans whose battle against slavery we can now turn to in his own words. He recounts dramatically how he helped fugitive slaves to cross the Ohio River from Kentucky and go north to freedom. He risked his life—hiding in coffins, diving off a steamboat into the Ohio River with bounty hunters on his trail—and his freedom to fight for the freedom of his people."
