Publisher's Synopsis
An unusual and stirring account of the rarely told story of how the underground war against slavery was foughtand sometimes won. This narrative, never before published, was dictated to a newspaperman after the Civil War. It follows John P. Parker, a determined young slave who is forced from his family in Virginia and made to walk to Alabama, where he is sold to a doctor. Escaping to New Orleans, after a series of harrowing near-captures, he is found by his master and returned to Mobile. He convinces a widow to buy him and earns his way out of slavery through working in a foundry. Moving to Ohio, Parker becomes a major member of the abolitionist movement in Ripley, a stronghold of the Underground Railroad.
