Soul of a Slave: Madison Washington and the Creole Mutiny by Charles Boyle

Author:Charles Boyle [Boyle, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Historical, History, Americas, 19th Century
Amazon: B00TQEIYOK
Publisher: St. John's Press
Published: 2015-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

Madison was the first to crawl down the ladder. He was impatient to get moving; to get to Canada as fast as he could and then send someone for Milinda and little Isaac. At the bottom of the ladder, he could hardly believe his eyes. A white minister, dressed in a long black cassock and wearing a flat wide brimmed hat stood before him. He carried a Bible in one hand. They shook hands and he beckoned all three runaways into his covered wagon, a modern prairie schooner. They began their journey, unsure of where they were headed, but happy to be able to do so. The minister said very little except to explain that if they were stopped, to say nothing, he would do all of the talking. “Should someone ask you a direct question, do not answer. Appear ignorant or deaf. If the wrong word is passed—even a hint of what we are doing—we’ll be shot on the spot; you can be sure of that.”

“Who are you, Sir? Are you a man of the cloth... what faith?” Martha Pullman asked.

“I’m a gun thrower, lady... a bounty hunter. This business pays better. Don’t let this ‘get-up’ fool you. I’m armed.”

“Who pays you?” Madison asked.

“I told you that you don’t need to know too much. They’ll squeeze it out of you. Just know that them Jesus-loving Yankees think you’re worth it. Now shut up.”

Madison, Ely, and Martha complied and remained silent. The wagon continued plodding throughout the night and Madison could tell he was traveling northeast by the position of the stars. Charles King had taught him how to measure seven sections of the cup side of the big dipper and space them below the constellation’s handle. There he would find the North Star and directly beneath that, the direction was always north.

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