Title: Sailing to freedom
Description: Twelve-year-old Ray is in trouble from the moment he and his monkey, Allie, board the Newburyport Beauty. But when bounty hunters come looking for a runaway slave, it’s Ray and Allie who must save hideaway, crew, vessel and all.
Meanwhile that runaway’s 11- year-old brother, Ogun, makes his desperate way from Carolina to Canada on foot.
Subjects: Monkeys as pets, Boats and boating, Slavery, Capuchin monkeys, Fugitive slaves, Fiction, History;, Uncles, Juvenile fiction, History, Children's fiction, Slavery, fiction, Boats and boating, fiction, United states, fiction, Monkeys, fiction, United states, history, fiction
Places: United States; Grand Manan Island, Canada; Newburyport & Boston, MA; Charleston, SC; Liverpool, England; Dismal Swamp; Dark Harbor, Grand Manan Island, CA; Nova Scotia; Portland and Kennebunk, ME;
People: Matthew G. Perry; Millard Fillmore; William Lloyd Garrison
Time periods: 1852