Title: Towpath adventures
Description: Jonathan Hamilton is a twelve year old boy who gets into trouble with his step-mother, and whose father sends him off for the summer to work as a mule driver with his uncle on the Erie Canal. He finds himself a part of the Underground Railroad that floats! A canal orphan joins the crew aboard the canal boat Deliverance, and they later help a family escape from slave hunters.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Ohio, fiction
Places: Erie Canal (N.Y.)
Time periods: 19th century