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Down Memory's Lane by Dr. Donald D. Parker - - (excerpted from longer article) - - "Slavery Days in Parkville and Vicinity” - - Many a slave in Parkville could have said, “Many times I have seen wagons creaking their way down Main Street loaded with colored men, women and children - just as we see them now loaded with hogs - on their way to the slave market. Stricken faces blanched with terror and foreboding - I do not like to think of them.” James Gazaway Johnson, a familiar figure to many present-day residents of Parkville, was born in 1851 in Clinton County, was transferred to Mississippi in 1861 from which state he did not return until 1874. He states that slave traders and speculators used to come to Parkville on business. On one occasion a tiny slave girl was apparently unwanted, as a trader loaded his cargo at the wharf in Parkville. A family offered to take her and she grew up and lived for many years with the family north of town. Her name was Hunter.Date(s) of Creation
1/7/1944