{"product_id":"9780986115806","title":"Three Links of Chain","description":"The flyer reads, \"One dark mulatto runaway, aged fourteen, well dressed and bright...\"\u003cp\u003eBlanche 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlanche 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis richly researched work of fiction weaves actual historical characters and institutions into the gripping story of a young man born into slavery but resolute in his quest for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jublio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021063602416,"sku":"9780986115806","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780986115806_p0.jpg?v=1763890489","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986115806","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}