Sailing to freedom

By Martha Bennett Stiles

Subjects: History, Juvenile fiction, Uncles, Monkeys, fiction, Fiction, United states, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Slavery, Boats and boating, fiction, Children's fiction, History;, Boats and boating, Capuchin monkeys, Fugitive slaves, United states, history, fiction, Monkeys as pets

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.