Canalboat to Freedom
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Benja worked as a hoggee on a canalboat where he met and befriended Lundius, who patiently taught him the ways of nature and protected him from the crueler ways of men. One night Benja discovered that Lundius, a former slave, was smuggling fugitive slaves through the Underground Railroad.
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