Canalboat to freedom
By: by Thomas Fall ; illustrated by Joseph Cellini.
Contributors: Cellini, Joseph.
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Canals -- Fiction; Slavery -- United States -- Fiction; Underground railroad -- Fiction; New York (State) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Benja Lowe is a hoggee for a canalboat, working long hours walking the towpaths of the Delaware and Hudson Canal in the 1800s. He befriends Lundius, the deckhand and a former slave, and helps him smuggle runaway slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.