The Man with the Branded Hand: The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist Contributor(s): Oickle, Alvin F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594161364 ISBN-13: 9781594161360 Publisher: Westholme Publishing OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Social Science | Slavery |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2013409376 |
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.36" W x 9.53" (1.24 lbs) 384 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Captured While Attempting to Smuggle Slaves to Freedom in 1844, the Only Man Branded in a Courtroom by a United States Marshal Walker survived his ordeal, spending much of his incarceration in isolation. Once released, he remained active in the antislavery movement even while he and his devoted wife Jane raised their nine children. His attempt to help form a new colony in Mexico for runaway American slaves also led to punishing experiences for Walker and one of his sons. Living later with his family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the years before the Civil War, Walker made room in his crowded house to shelter runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. He participated in abolitionist lecture tours across the North where he would be urged to reveal his branded hand--made famous by John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Branded Hand"--to astonished audiences. Too old to enlist in the Civil War, Walker instead headed to Virginia in the war's final year to help educate African Americans fleeing Confederate forces. In The Man With the Branded Hand: The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist, distinguished journalist Alvin F. Oickle relates this entire remarkable story of a life devoted to the supposition that "all men are created equal." |