Midnight rescue

By Lois Walfrid Johnson

Subjects: Steamboats, Underground railroad, African Americans, Slavery, Prisoners, Fugitive slaves, Christian life, Fiction, Underground Railroad, Juvenile fiction

Description: In 1857, having arrived in Minnesota Territory on her father's steamboat, twelve-year-old Libby continues to harbor the runaway slave boy Jordan while worrying about a fugitive who has escaped from the local prison.