O America: Discovery in a New Land

by William Least Heat-Moon

In 1848 an English physician, Nathaniel Trennant, accepts an offer to serve as doctor on a ship carrying immigrants to America. When arriving in Baltimore, Trennant stumbles onto its slave market and witnesses the horrors of human bondage. One night in a boardinghouse he discovers under his bed a runaway slave. Disturbed and angered by the selling of human lives, he offers to help the young man escape, a criminal action that will put the fugitive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826222048
• ISBN13: 9780826222046
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"