Redemption (Legends of Graham Mansion) by Jude Rosa Lee & Brewer Mary Lin

Author:Jude, Rosa Lee & Brewer, Mary Lin [Jude, Rosa Lee]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Two Southern Belles Publishing
Published: 2012-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

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The next morning came early. Sal woke Grae up before the sun rose and they had a simple breakfast made as dawn was breaking. She had noticed the night before that a primitive calendar hung on the wall of the cabin with big X’s marking off the days. She watched as Bob made an X on Thursday, April 6, 1786. From her grandmother’s papers, she knew that in one month, Joseph Baker would be dead.

Grae was sent with Aggie and another Negro named Isaiah to work on planting a vegetable garden. Isaiah was a slave from a neighboring farm. It was a large plot of ground, the biggest garden that Grae had ever seen. She watched as Isaiah took a stake and put it near the far left corner of the ground. He carefully tied twine to it and released the ball of twine as he walked toward her at the other left corner. He put another stake in the ground and tied the twine to it, then he cut the remaining ball away.

“Isaiah, he likes to make the rows straight, says it makes the plants grow better.” Grae could tell that Aggie had a soft spot for Isaiah. Her whole attitude changed with him around. “I just thinks he likes the rows to look nice,” she whispered to Grae. Isaiah made several of these staked rows, two feet apart, before Aggie and Grae began planting. They planted seeds all morning and the list of vegetables was longer than Grae would have imagined for that time period. They planted corn, potatoes, several types of beans, peas, turnips, carrots, onions and tomatoes. When they had used the staked rows, they just pulled up the stakes and put them down again two feet from the last one. It was a good system and their planting stayed straight.

“That ground over there that Isaiah be plowing now, we gonna plant that later today. It be all corn. That be for the Massa’s whiskey making.” Aggie was being friendly to Grae today; she hoped that Isaiah would be around them a lot in the future.

Grae wanted to ask about the whiskey making, but she wasn’t so sure she should ask too many questions. It was hard though because she knew that Joseph Baker had been killed while he and Bob and Sam were working in the distillery.

About mid-morning, Aggie left Grae with the planting and went to help Sal finish preparing the noon meal. She knew it was going to be soup beans and corn bread as Sal had begun soaking the dry beans the night before. She’d only been in this new time for twenty-four hours and already she could tell that she had changed. Such a meal was something that years before she would eat at her grandmother’s house on a Saturday afternoon visit, with the promise from her mother that they would stop for cheeseburgers on the way home. Now she was ravenous with hunger, and her mouth watered at the thought of the simple meal.

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