Chasing the North Star : a novel /

On a moonless night in the spring of 1851, a young slave makes a bid for freedom with only the North Star to guide him. Novelist and historian Robert Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of a runaway slave named Jonah Williams, who, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina plan...

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Main Author:	Morgan, Robert, 1944- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Fugitive slaves > Fiction. United States > History > 1815-1861 > Fiction. Historical fiction.

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