Night Boat to Freedom

By Raven, Margot Theis & Lewis, Earl

Publishers Summary:
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.

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ISBN
978-0-37431-266-4
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on November 1, 2006

Gr 2-6 Christmas John, 12, lives in a pine-board cabin with Granny Judith, who was enslaved when strangers lured her to their ship with a piece of red flannel. Now on a plantation in Kentucky, Granny Judith and Christmas John help others escape across the river to the free state of Ohio by taking advantage of Johns youthhes young enough to avoid notice, and old enough to row a boat across and bac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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