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Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier
Free Frank A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier
Author: Juliet E. K. Walker
The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extrao...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813108407
ISBN-10: 0813108403
Publication Date: 2/1995
Pages: 238
Edition: Reissue
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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Book Type: Paperback
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The story of America's first slave to found a town, New Philadephia,IL.


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