John Parker

Goof Morning POU! Today we look feature another conductor of The Underground Railroad. As an 8-year-old slave, John P. Parker was taken from his mother and chained to an elderly African-American man. The man and the boy were forced to walk about 100 miles in 1835 from Norfolk, Va., to Richmond, where their new owners lived. Not long after that, Parker learned that the old … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad