In 1864, two boys, one a slave running toward freedom and one hoping to collect the reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, relying on knowledge the white boy's father, disabled by the war, had passed on to him in happier times.
year: 2004
call number/section: 1000
subjects: fugitive slaves, fiction, slavery, fathers and sons, african americans, historical fiction, okefenokee swamp (ga. and fla.), history, 19th century, fiction, georgia, civil war, 1861-1865, united states, 1861-1865, civil war