![]() ![]() ![]() What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one that will propel him further across the globe. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. ![]() Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07911499Vįrom the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world. ![]()
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