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His Promised Land<ref>Stuart Sprague (editor), His Promised Land (New York City, W. W. Norton &amp;amp;amp; Company, 1996).</ref>  
His Promised Land<ref>Stuart Sprague (editor), His Promised Land (New York City, W. W. Norton &amp;amp;amp;amp; Company, 1996).</ref>  


*Dictated by John Parker to newspaper man Frank Gregg in 1885  
*Dictated by John Parker to newspaper man Frank Gregg in 1885  
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! scope="col" | Slave holder Mobile, 1843–1845<br>
! scope="col" | Slave holder Mobile, 1843–1845<br>  
! scope="col" | Slave holder Mobile, 1835–1843<br>
! scope="col" | Slave holder Mobile, 1835–1843<br>  
! scope="col" | Slave holder Norfolk, 1827–1835<br>
! scope="col" | Slave holder Norfolk, 1827–1835<br>
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| “Mrs. Ryder was a good woman. She encouraged me all she could. . . . I bade her farewell with regrets because of her almost motherly kindness.”<br>
| “Mrs. Ryder was a good woman. She encouraged me all she could. . . . I bade her farewell with regrets because of her almost motherly kindness.”<br>  
| “My friend the doctor was pleased with the deal as he knew I would have a good home. So we parted as good friends, which he always was to me.”<br>
| “My friend the doctor was pleased with the deal as he knew I would have a good home. So we parted as good friends, which he always was to me.”<br>  
| “. . . when I was eight years old living in Norfolk, Virginia. As a slave, all I knew was my father was one of the aristocrats of Virginia.”<br>
| “. . . when I was eight years old living in Norfolk, Virginia. As a slave, all I knew was my father was one of the aristocrats of Virginia.”<br>
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Mobile, Alabama research  
Mobile, Alabama research  
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*Ruth Randall, “An Interracial Suit for Inheritance: Clues to Probable Paternity for a Georgia Freedman, Henry Clay Heard Sherman,” NGS Quarterly 89 (June 2001), 85–97.  
*Ruth Randall, “An Interracial Suit for Inheritance: Clues to Probable Paternity for a Georgia Freedman, Henry Clay Heard Sherman,” NGS Quarterly 89 (June 2001), 85–97.  
*Douglas S. Shipley, “Teaming Oral History with Documentary Research: The Enslaved Austins of Missouri’s ‘Little Dixie,’ ” NGS Quarterly 90 (June 2002), 111–135.&nbsp;
*Douglas S. Shipley, “Teaming Oral History with Documentary Research: The Enslaved Austins of Missouri’s ‘Little Dixie,’ ” NGS Quarterly 90 (June 2002), 111–135.&nbsp;
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