Little Black Girl Lost 4 by Keith Lee Johnson

Author:Keith Lee Johnson [Johnson, Keith L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-05-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

“Do enjoy her, if you can. ”

Alexander Bouvier pretended to be the best servant his master ever had, knowing full well he was going to return the favor someday, even if the debt would be repaid by his own son or daughter vicariously. He asked for and had been granted special permission to hire himself out on weekends, doing whatever laborious work he could find to earn enough money to buy himself and his wife. He worked seven days a week. Sometimes, when work was available, he hired out his evenings during the week in an effort to expedite his family’s freedom.

It took five years to accomplish this because he had to give half his earnings to Bouvier. By then, they had three children. One of them, a lovely blonde, blue-eyed girl, obviously belonged to their master. Before they realized the baby was sired by Damien Bouvier, they had decided to name her Julia. But when Bouvier learned that the baby was his, he loved her, and named her Kayla, after his grandmother.

When Alexander had saved enough money to pay for his wife and children, including Kayla, Bouvier gave him two teams of horses, two wagons, which he strung together, and all the supplies Alexander could carry to start a new life. Altruism had little if anything to do with his magnanimity. The gifts were a way to assuage a mind saturated with guilt. They were born of a mind that had come to terms with what he had done to a man who had served him faithfully for many years.

As a final gift, Bouvier gave back all the money Alexander had been paying him over the years for their freedom. He told him he had saved it for him as a surprise and for his own good, just in case something happened to his savings.

Later, after they left New Orleans, Alexander dropped the name Bouvier and became known as Alexander Tresvant. He moved his family west to the Rocky Mountains of what later became the Colorado Territory, where he met a different group of Christians who not only believed what the Bible said, but actually practiced its commandments. They sold him land, educated him and his family, and taught them that all men were of one blood. Over the course of time, he found gold on his property, long before The Pike’s Peak Gold Rush in 1861, which later became known as the Colorado Gold Rush.

Alexander then hired several white Christian attorneys he trusted to procure vast amounts of land in New Orleans, where he later produced sugar and became a wealthy plantation owner. By the time he and his family moved back to New Orleans, Damien Bouvier had died. As far as Alexander was concerned, when Damien bequeathed his land and money to his progeny, he also left them his debt and dishonor. He had read that legally, when a person is left anything in a will, the person takes responsibility for debt as well as assets. And so revenge would be taken on those he left behind when he went to his grave.

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