Jonathan Hamilton is a twelve year old boy who gets into trouble with his step-mother, and whose father sends him off for the summer to work as a mule driver with his uncle on the Erie Canal. He finds himself a part of the Underground Railroad that floats! A canal orphan joins the crew aboard the canal boat Deliverance, and they later help a family escape from slave hunters.
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