He described himself as a "Johnny Appleseed" going from university to university shopping his idea.

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His post-war films were increasingly preoccupied with such American folk heroes as Davy Crockett and Johnny Appleseed.

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Walk the Freedom Trail, do Sherman's march to the sea, reenact the life of Johnny Appleseed, recreate the discoveries of Lewis and Clark, but without all the venereal disease.

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Lumbly makes you believe that this Johnny Appleseed of reading and writing would return to slavery from a free life up North and risk mutilation in order to continue his teaching.

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