Chasing the North Star

First edition, first printing with publisher's full number line. Clean text block. Unclipped dust jacket. Not a remaindered copy. The story of Jonah Williams, who, in 1850, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina plantation on which he was born a slave. He takes with him only a few stolen coins, a knife, and the clothes on his back--no shoes, no map, no clear idea of where to head, except north, following a star that he prays will be his guide. 308 pages.