Book Review: The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker

In this episode, we offer a deep dive synopsis of Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’s upcoming nonfiction book, The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker: A True Tale of Love, Murder, Treason, and Ordinary Folks Who Saved America, to be published by Simon & Schuster on September 8, 2026. The story centers on the Christiana Resistance of September 11, 1851, when William Parker and a network of Black and white allies in rural Lancaster County stood their ground against a federal posse enforcing the ...