{"id":60501,"date":"2021-05-05T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60501"},"modified":"2021-05-05T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:34:44","slug":"an-upstream-battle-john-parkers-personal-war-on-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60501","title":{"rendered":"An Upstream Battle: John Parker’s Personal War on Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Upstream Battle: John Parker’s Personal War on Slavery<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Anne Stanton Publications<\/a>
\n2019-02-12
\n136 pages
\nISBN-13 : 978-1796696295
\n5.5 x 0.34 x 8.5 inches<\/p>\n

Anne Stanton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

*** Free download available from 2021-05-05 through 2021-05-09 here<\/a>! ***<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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John Parker<\/a> wasn\u2019t interested in helping anyone run away. He had worked too hard getting himself free to want to risk losing it for someone he didn\u2019t know. But Sam didn\u2019t give up, and soon John was enlisted to help two young women cross the Ohio River<\/a> to freedom. What neither man knew at the time was that this marked the beginning of a personal war on slavery for John Parker, one in which he would help hundreds of runaways escape. An Upstream Battle<\/em> is comprised of four stories from the life of John Parker, an African American businessman and inventor. Based on events portrayed in Parker\u2019s autobiography, An Upstream Battle<\/em> illustrates the real danger that Parker and other members of the Underground Railroad<\/a> were exposed to, and their commitment to helping runaway slaves, despite that danger. This book makes a great gift for YA readers who couldn\u2019t put down \u201cBud, not Buddy<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on events portrayed in Parker\u2019s autobiography, “An Upstream Battle” illustrates the real danger that Parker and other members of the Underground Railroad were exposed to, and their commitment to helping runaway slaves, despite that danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,6940,20],"tags":[31269,31270,31272,31271,260],"class_list":["post-60501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-anne-stanton","tag-anne-stanton-publications","tag-john-p-parker","tag-john-parker","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60778,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501\/revisions\/60778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}