![]() Early who captures runaways and sells them back to their southern masters.Īs May’s secrets become more tangled and harder to keep, the Floating Theatre readies for its biggest performance yet. 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. 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. ![]() Howard are also traveling down the Ohio River, speaking out against slavery at the many riverside towns. ![]() May becomes indispensable to Hugo and his troupe, and all goes well until she sees her cousin again. 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. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. ![]() 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. 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 runaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice ![]()
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