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Judge N.M. Hubbard
From slavery to a self-taught lawyer, the extraordinary story of John Waller
John Waller’s life, like many other enslaved African Americans in the 1800s, was to serve their owners and break their backs on the plantations. But his destiny changed when he and his parents were rescued by a Union infantry regiment in 1862. After gaining their freedom, the family relocated to Iowa where the regiment was…
