Edmund came from the Mississippi: he had been a slave and had kept his freedom. “I am a son of liberty.”
| Type | Character |
| Origin | The Mississippi |
| Place | Fraunces Tavern |
| Spanish entry | Edmund (Les Libertateurs) |
History
The last he saw of his people was one who said “I am a son of liberty” — and was thrown off a cliff.
At the Fraunces Tavern, at the table where Xochotl’s proposal was discussed, he was among those who could not ignore its core of truth: the proposal “is great… but without Xochotl”. Beside him stood Bahía, the Boom — the Black paladin of liberty, “I understand we are on the side of life” — and La Plume, who smelled the fraud.
Not to be confused with other Edmunds in the notebooks (Husserl, Spenser, Burke, Meltzer, Thorbjornson) or with Edmund Malone of the Carnival chronicle.