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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Underground River
  name:
    name part: Conway, Martha
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Historical fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First Touchstone hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 340 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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"--
  note: Martha Conway.
  note: "A novel"--cover.
  note: Maps on lining pages.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-uso--
  subject:
    topic: Fugitive slaves
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Antislavery movements
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Abolitionists
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Steamboats
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Ohio River
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Historical
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Family Life
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: General
  classification: PS3603.O565 R36 2017
  classification: 813/.6
  classification: FIC014000 FIC045000 FIC000000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Underground River
    name:
      name part: Conway, Martha.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017
      edition: First Touchstone hardcover edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2016057448
  identifier: 9781501160202
  identifier: 1501160206
  identifier: 9781501160257
  identifier: 1501160257
  identifier: 9781501160264
  identifier: 2016050548
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161212
    record change date: 20170706145909.0
    record identifier: in00003884694
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng