{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-the-fugitive-william-parker-a-true-tale-of-love-murder-treason-and-ordinary-folks-who-saved-america","title":"The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker: A True Tale of Love, Murder, Treason, and Ordinary Folks Who Saved America","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \n\u003ci\u003eDr. Mütter's Marvels\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as eight collections of poetry. A seventh generation Pennsylvanian, she lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the novelist Ernest Cline, and their children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Rousing.... This impeccably researched page-turner powerfully evokes the American spirit.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"The Ballad Of The Fugitive William Parker is brilliant and incredibly engaging, not only because of the depth of the worlds Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz builds, or the transportive nature of the narrative and how wonderfully it moves, but because she takes to the story with a poet's heart and mind, as excited to tell it as you will be to hear it. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I left this book thinking about how incredible it is to have a story of community-based resistance, at any time, but specifically at this time.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Hanif Abdurraqib, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e A Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eMaster Slave Husband Wife\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDjango Unchained \u003c\/i\u003ecomes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as \"the first shots of the Civil War,\" from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDr. Mütter's Marvels\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe year, 1851. The place, a Quaker farming community turned Underground Railroad stronghold, where a Maryland enslaver had journeyed in pursuit of four men who'd fled his plantation years before. In a few hours, he'd be dead...and twenty-seven men from the village of Christiana would be rounded up and put on trial. Not for his murder, but for \n\u003ci\u003etreason\u003c\/i\u003e--for waging war against the United States, at a time when it was a crime against the government to obstruct an enslaver looking to reclaim his \"property.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is story of what happened in Christiana that September morning--and in the ensuing \"trial of the century,\" which saw the president himself advise the prosecution on strategy and a sitting congressman serve as lead attorney for the defense. But \n\u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker\u003c\/i\u003e is also a much larger tale, one spanning decades, following a whole startlingly diverse community of abolitionists in their fight to convince their fellow Americans of the subversive idea that now found itself on trial: that the nation ought to live up the ideals it was founded on, and respect all men as equals. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's a story that whisks readers from the quiet farmlands of Lancaster County--where a self-emancipated man named William Parker, whom legend had it bullets could not kill, rallied his neighbors to ride out each night to battle the slavecatchers who stalked their countryside--to Philadelphia's genteel Society Hill, where socialite Harriet Forten Purvis had the ear of the mayor (and a cellar filled with fugitives). It's stylish, propulsive, intimately human tale of bravery, ingenuity, and hope--and of ordinary people with little in common who came together to stand against injustice...and won.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eAptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \n\u003ci\u003eDr. Mütter's Marvels\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as eight collections of poetry. 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