John W. Jones was born a slave in 1817 on a plantation in Virginia. At the age of twenty-seven, he along with four others ran away from the plantation and made a dangerous 300-mile flee to Elmira. Once in Elmira, Jones found employment at Miss Clarissa Thurston’s Female Seminary where he worked in exchange for […]
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