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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 36 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Hillary Huber. |
| Summary |
It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue-until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states. May becomes indispensable to Hugo and his troupe, and all goes well until she sees her cousin again. Comfort and Mrs. Howard are also traveling down the Ohio River, speaking out against slavery at the many riverside towns. May owes Mrs. Howard a debt she cannot repay, and Mrs. Howard uses the opportunity to enlist May in her network of shadowy characters who ferry babies given up by their slave mothers across the river to freedom. Lying has never come easy to May, but now she is compelled to break the law, deceive all her new-found friends, and deflect the rising suspicions of Dr. Early, who captures runaways and sells them back to their southern masters. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Steamboats -- Fiction.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Ohio River -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Huber, Hillary.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541425705 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1541425707 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11903388 |
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