O America: Discovery In a New Land by William Least Heat-Moon

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"One night in a boardinghouse the ships doctor, Nathanial Trennant, 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 slave and physician into flight from both the law and opportunistic slave hunters."