The Resource The Underground River, Martha Conway
The Underground River, Martha Conway
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The item The Underground River, Martha Conway represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- "Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving Ranaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist, Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states. May becomes indispensable to Hugo and his troupe, and all goes well until she sees her cousin again. Comfort and Mrs. Howard are also traveling down the Ohio River, speaking out against slavery at the many riverside towns. May owes Mrs. Howard a debt she cannot repay, and Mrs. Howard uses the opportunity to enlist May in her network of shadowy characters who ferry babies given up by their slave mothers across the river to freedom. Lying has never come easy to May, but now she is compelled to break the law, deceive all her new-found friends, and deflect the rising suspicions of Dr. Early who captures Ranaways and sells them back to their southern masters. As May's secrets become more tangled and harder to keep, the Floating Theatre readies for its biggest performance yet. May's predicament could mean doom for all her friends on board, including her beloved Hugo, unless she can figure out a way to trap those who know her best"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Note
- A Touchstone Book
- Isbn
- 9781501160202
- Label
- The Underground River
- Title
- The Underground River
- Statement of responsibility
- Martha Conway
- Subject
-
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Antislavery movements
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- FICTION -- Family Life
- FICTION -- General
- FICTION -- Historical
- Fiction
- Fugitive slaves
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- 1800-1899
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Ohio River
- Ohio River -- Fiction
- Steamboats
- Steamboats -- Fiction
- United States
- Historical fiction
- Abolitionists
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving Ranaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist, Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states. May becomes indispensable to Hugo and his troupe, and all goes well until she sees her cousin again. Comfort and Mrs. Howard are also traveling down the Ohio River, speaking out against slavery at the many riverside towns. May owes Mrs. Howard a debt she cannot repay, and Mrs. Howard uses the opportunity to enlist May in her network of shadowy characters who ferry babies given up by their slave mothers across the river to freedom. Lying has never come easy to May, but now she is compelled to break the law, deceive all her new-found friends, and deflect the rising suspicions of Dr. Early who captures Ranaways and sells them back to their southern masters. As May's secrets become more tangled and harder to keep, the Floating Theatre readies for its biggest performance yet. May's predicament could mean doom for all her friends on board, including her beloved Hugo, unless she can figure out a way to trap those who know her best"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Conway, Martha
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3603.O565
- LC item number
- R36 2017
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Fugitive slaves
- Antislavery movements
- Abolitionists
- Steamboats
- African Americans
- Ohio River
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- African Americans
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery movements
- Fugitive slaves
- Steamboats
- Ohio River
- United States
- Label
- The Underground River, Martha Conway
- Note
- A Touchstone Book
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 962005691
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501160202
- Lccn
- 2016050548
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40027281202
- System control number
- (OCoLC)962005691
- Label
- The Underground River, Martha Conway
- Note
- A Touchstone Book
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 962005691
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501160202
- Lccn
- 2016050548
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40027281202
- System control number
- (OCoLC)962005691
Subject
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Antislavery movements
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- FICTION -- Family Life
- FICTION -- General
- FICTION -- Historical
- Fiction
- Fugitive slaves
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- 1800-1899
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Ohio River
- Ohio River -- Fiction
- Steamboats
- Steamboats -- Fiction
- United States
- Historical fiction
- Abolitionists
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