Heyday: A Novel by Andersen Kurt

Author:Andersen, Kurt [Andersen, Kurt]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2007-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

“IT’S A WHOLE wagon of sambos coming up the street real slow, with a white man driving,” the lantern boy had said as he’d burst in the door of the firehouse this time. “Real scraggly, too, they look like.” Fatty and the other four had been awake, playing cards, so within a minute all five were armed, squeezed into the borrowed phaeton and racing north as fast as the horses could run.

They leapt out at Spring and ran toward No. 94 Greene. Three of the Washington Negroes, two of the men and the woman, were already near the cellar door. A white man shoved them inside, slammed the door behind him, and announced to Fatty and his gang that they were “acting in clear violation of due process, as well as all of the relevant city and state laws,” and threatened to send for a police officer.

He was ignored. The third colored man had been collecting his belongings from the wagon and minding a little girl. Charlie Strausbaugh held a pistol on him.

“Go, Peggy, right now,” the black man commanded, “run to that house. Your daddy always loves you.”

Toby pulled a sack over the man’s head, and Fatty pinned his arms behind his back. The girl started to cry, but did as she was told. And a minute later, the carriage was racing south back toward Anthony Street, some of its white passengers laughing and hooting as the others tied the hands of a Negro named Elmer Armstrong, late of Washington, D.C., his one week of freedom over.

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