Title: Christmas John and the night boat
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.
Subjects: Underground railroad, Slavery, Fiction, Fugitive slaves, African Americans, History, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Boats and boating, fiction
Places: Kentucky, Ohio
Time periods: 1787-1865, 1792-1865