Jim Baker
Subtitle: a thrilling episode of ante-bellum days : a true story of the oppressed race among friends and foes
By: by Thomas Addington.
Publisher: A.C. Beeson & Sons, the Journal
Published: 1898
Place of publication: Winchester, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Baker, Jim, -- b. 1828 or 9; Slaves -- Tennessee -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- Tennessee -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- Indiana -- Biography; African Americans -- Biography; Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Slavery -- Tennessee -- History -- 19th century; Underground railroad
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Photocopy. Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana Historical Society, 2001. 28 cm.

James Baker was born in 1828 or 1829 in Tennessee, the son of a slave woman and a Col. Baker. He escaped through the underground railroad in 1849. The author met Baker at the Union Literary Institute, Randolph County, Ind., and heard his story. Baker later returned to the South to attempt to guide his family to the North.