Drifted Back In Time by Millie L. Mcghee-morris

Author:Millie L. Mcghee-morris [Millie L. McGhee-Morris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781449730925
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2011-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

One day, far in the future, Madam Charlotte planned to tell Emily that she had always known about Master Hoover fathering her sons. Before Emily, Madam Charlotte didn’t feel that her life mattered to anyone. When Emily became her daughter, everything changed. Emily had six wonderful sons who were now part of Madam Charlotte’s life; whenever she felt lonely, she would call all the boys into the house and play games with them. She taught them how to read. Right along with Master Hoover, Madam Charlotte was planning the future for their grandsons.

Master Hoover and Madam Charlotte were making plans to ensure the children’s survival after slavery was over. They filed documents in the hall of records stating the boys were white, the ultimate secret. After that, it was up to them to continue living on the ranch and keep their secrets.

Other states had already freed their slaves. Even though all of Emily’s sons were kept a secret from the world, and could pass for white, the Hoovers felt there was still some risk for them.

Master Hoover loved his boys, and he treated them like they were white. He thought Madam Charlotte was proud of the way he treated the boys and was hoping that Madam Charlotte thought he was acting like a proud grandfather, because he still thought he had her fooled.

They never allowed the boys off the plantation for any reason, bringing everything they needed to the plantation for them. They only played with children on Hoover Ranch. When the Hoovers had parties and when visitors came to the plantation, the boys were taken out of sight.

The guards were instructed to keep them from being seen, so they hid the boys. When they grew up, the boys had a choice to pass for white, or to acknowledge their colored heritage. Only Dr. Pitts, the slaves, and close friends who were slave owners themselves knew the boys even existed. People in town thought the Hoovers were private people because the ranch was built in a way to keep their private life secret.

There were rumors about a newspaperman in town years ago. Someone said that the newspaperman captured a slave named Willie from Hoover’s Ranch, who’d been in town running an errand for Old Man Hoover, Sr.

When Old Man Hoover, Sr., found out that the owner of the newspaper had tortured Willie for information on the Hoovers, just so he could write an article about the Hoovers’ private life in his newspaper, he was furious. The slave made it back to the ranch beaten close to death, rumor had it, but he was able to tell Master Hoover who had hurt him: a man Hoover knew was the owner of the Morning Sun Newspaper.

“What did he want to know from you?” Old Man Hoover asked.

“All about what went on inside the walls of Hoover Ranch. That’s what he asked about,” said Willie.

Old Man Hoover went to see the owner of the newspaper.

“If you write one word, you say anything about

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