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The Underground River

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Reads 46
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"In 1838, you could get hung for helping runaways." Twenty-two year old May Bedloe is on her own after a steamboat accident separates her from her cousin, the actress Comfort Vertue. May gets a job on a riverboat theatre going down the Ohio River, which in antebellum American is the natural division between the North and the South. Over the course of one summer, May brings danger to herself and her newly found friends-and possibly a new love-when she is drawn to helping others along the Underground Railroad.All Rights Reserved

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