The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman

Author:Delia Sherman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: young adult, Fiction, fantasy, Slaves - Louisiana, Louisiana, Seasons, Maze Gardens, 19th Century, Young Adult Fiction, historical, Nineteen Sixties, Juvenile Fiction, United States, Slaves, Concepts, Sugar Plantations, novel, Action & Adventure, General, Time Travel, Child Slaves, Louisiana - History
ISBN: 9781931520300
Publisher: Big Mouth House
Published: 2001-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

A few days later, the Big House was ready for company. Everything that could be polished had been polished, the storeroom was full, the beds were made up, and there were fresh flowers in every room.

The day the Fairchild daughters were due to arrive, Old Missy set up camp bright and early in a wicker chair down by the floating dock so she’d be sure to be on hand to greet them. Standing behind her with a sunshade, Sophie watched the steam launches pull up the bayou one by one, whistles shrilling, with wide-hatted ladies leaning over the rails and waving their parasols. Samson and Peru helped the crew tie up to the floating dock. Then a Fairchild daughter would herd her children down the gangway to kiss their grandmother and pester her for a boiled sweet while her husband oversaw the unloading of all the trunks and valises and dressing cases necessary for a two-week visit.

By late afternoon, everyone had arrived and Oak River overflowed with Fairchild women and their ruddy planter husbands, talking and laughing and needing to be waited on.

Miss Lotty and Mr. Preston had brought their new baby and his nurse with them, but Miss Sukey and Mr. Kennedy had left their two younger children at home, bringing only Miss May Frances Kennedy, a prissy-faced ten-year-old with chestnut hair cut to her shoulders. Miss Kate’s twins, Augustus and Marcus Becker, were, as Aunt Winney said, as alike as blackstrap and molasses and mischievous as monkeys. Not an hour after they arrived, their father was tanning their backsides for sliding down the banister.

They made a great deal of noise over the whipping, then ran off immediately afterward to climb a tree. Sophie couldn’t believe it was just because they were used to it. Maybe people didn’t hit their children as hard as they hit their slaves.

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