THREE LINKS OF CHAIN - Tecno-Libro

The flyer reads, One dark mulatto runaway, aged fourteen, well dressed and bright... Blanche thinks he has it good. He has risen above the field hands to a position helping run a printing press. He s well fed, never physically mistreated, and he has taught himself to read, though he keeps the illicit skill a secret. Most importantly, he has been promised a chance at emancipation. Then, in a single bloody morning, his world is overturned, his master lies dead, and his widow has no intention of following through with her husband s promise to free him. Blanche would never have considered running away from his old life, but faced with the prospect of being sold as a laborer or worse, he forges his free papers and flees north, a fugitive, to create his own future. Only a few steps ahead of the slave catchers, he travels hundreds of miles across the violent backdrop of bleeding Kansas in the 1850s, a land torn by apart by two very different visions of humanity. This richly researched work of fiction weaves a