Of all the unlikely people to be conducting fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad, none can be more unlikely than the rascal Jackson Speed, 19th Century America's most reluctant adventurer and inadvertent hero. In this, the fifth volume of the Jackson Speed Memoirs, Speed's lustful eye is caught by the Tennessee Widow, a conductor on the Underground Railroad. In Chattanooga, Speed unknowingly becomes her accomplice in secreting runaway slaves north on a steamship sailing the Upper Tennessee River. This novella is set during the spring of 1853, before Speed's involvement in the...
Of all the unlikely people to be conducting fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad, none can be more unlikely than the rascal Jackson Speed, 1...
