“Just doing our job,” Henry said. Sims, “Not a one of our men has laid a hand on her. Used to be able to sell „em as soon as I could find a buyer.”
The lieutenant realized he had found the one he needed to ask to get an answer to the question that his friend Charles had asked. “A pure blood nigger field hand can fetch more than $3,000 at auction and a pure blood mammy can fetch even more. “Yes Masta Geroge,” she said as she turned and left the room by the back door. His mind turned to how he would punish Liza for running away. “Poppa, poppa, poppa…,” the girls called until he had dismounted, handed the rains of his horse to Mary, and took the girls in his arms. For Mary, as busy as she was, time seemed to fly. He would prefer not punishing her but if he did not she would run away again. He is of age, twelve. “Miss Eva, that’s not dirt. Liza no sooner left through the back door before Josh showed a tall dark haired clean shaven man
