Synopsis
"Surpasses all previous slave narratives. . . . Usually we need to invent our American heroes. With the publication of Parker's extraordinary memoir, we seem to have discovered the genuine article." —Joseph J. Ellis, Civilization
About John Parker
See more books from this AuthorThis previously unpublished manuscript, resurrected from the Duke University Archive, tells a remarkable story. Parker's oral history, taken down by a journalist in the 1880s, provides a lively and in
Nov 04 1996 | Read Full Review of His Promised Land: The Autobi...Parker's vigorous vernacular has echoes of Huckleberry Finn, but his tragicomic accounting of many death-defying episodes is freighted with truth and ""an eternal hatred of the institution [of slavery]."" Born in 1827 in Norfolk, Va., at eight Parker was sold and marched south in chains.
| Read Full Review of His Promised Land: The Autobi...The history of the civil rights movement of the 1960s has by now been boiled down to a paragraph in the minds of many high school students;
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