River Jordan A True Story of the Underground Railroad

The River Jordan is a fictionalized account of an actual escape in of a slave and her seven children from a western Virginia tobacco plantation on the Ohio River, and their harrowing flight across Ohio to Canada on the Underground Railroad. This vivid, inspiring chronicle of a familys ordeal is also a compelling history of the Underground Railroad, in which all the major characters and events are real.Burke, Henry is the author of 'River Jordan A True Story of the Underground Railroad' with ISBN 9780964525221 and ISBN 0964525224.