The swindler's treasure

By Lois Walfrid Johnson

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

Description: In 1857, while working for the Underground Railroad on a Mississippi River steamboat, thirteen-year-old Libby hunts for the swindler who has robbed her father and tries to reunite the fugitive slave Jordan with his missing father.