Christmas John and the night boat
By: Margot Theis Raven ; pictures by E.B. Lewis.
Contributors: Lewis, Earl B., ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Underground railroad -- Fiction; African Americans; African Americans -- Fiction; Kentucky -- History -- 1792-1865 -- Fiction; Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.
Notes: "Melanie Kroupa Books."