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Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a white farmer and his mother, Jane Johnson, was an enslaved African

Isaac Johnson - a former slave. He was a man who escaped the South, fought in the Civil War and found success as a stone mason and writer. In 1897 (published in

The story begins in the 1840s with Johnson's earliest recollections of his father, Richard Yeager, of his mother, Jane Johnson (a slave used by Yeager as his wi