Riverboat runaways
By: by Janet Schlabach.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Tudor Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Greensboro
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Underground railroad -- Juvenile fiction.; Underground railroad -- Fiction.; Slavery -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: As he is travelling to Ohio by steamboat, recently orphaned, fourteen-year-old Colin overhears a plot by two slavecatchers to kidnap a black man and sell him as a slave, and Colin decides he must help the man escape to Canada.