The Man with the Branded Hand: The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist

by Jonathan Walker and Alvin Oickle

Book Overview

Captured While Attempting to Smuggle Slaves to Freedom in 1844, the Only Man Branded in a Courtroom by a United States Marshal
Sailing around the Florida Keys in 1844, forty-five-year-old Jonathan Walker had a price on his head. On board the small boat he had built that winter in Alabama were seven fugitives from slavery. The Cape Cod sailor and abolitionist was wanted in Pensacola, Florida, for his crime: stealing slaves. The slaves'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594161364
• ISBN13: 9781594161360
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Westholme Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"