On the lam after escaping his life of servitude, Thomas Townes must scratch and claw his way into the unsettled territory of Kansas, but that’s the easy part as he soon learns he’ll be starting a war that carries the headline, BLEEDING KANSAS

When a young abolitionist? escapes from his slave master,? his struggle for freedom evolves into a battle for emancipation in a war now known as Bleeding Kansas.

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Thomas Townes, a young abolishionist, eager for manhood, must navigate his way through an 1850's war ready frontier, and avoid cultivating the budding seeds of Zerelda James' slave driven family.