Underground Airlines

How does Father Barton play a dual role in the novel, Underground Airlines?

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Father Barton is a Catholic priest involved in the Underground Airways movement to help escaped slaves flee the United States. While he claims to be a deeply moral abolitionist, over the course of the novel he is revealed to be morally compromised and working, to some measure, with the Marshals service to suppress evidence of the wider conspiracy regarding slavery.

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