Fugue in a Minor Key

This is a story of an interrupted journey finally completed 150 years later. A group of slaves flee north to escape a certain death sentence. Their group decimated by illness, accident and capture, a meager few arrive at the last Underground Railroad Station on their trek from Mississippi through Kentucky and across the Ohio River. Fearing the children are too ill to survive, the adults reluctantly leave them and continue on. The children, weakened by the journey, pass on while their parents hopefully await them. Death has trapped the little ones, and a 20th century school teacher has the key to set them free and deliver them to the Promised Land.