“YOU COME WITH ME, MISSY. I’ve got something to show you that I think you’ll find very interesting.”
Ruby checked on Lucas, who lay sleeping peacefully in his crib, before following after the petite white haired woman, who had so much Caucasian blood that it was impossible to tell, just by looking at her, that she was not White.
They walked down the silvery blue hall with its dark hardwood floors past Jared Anderson’s office to a room that they’d skipped during their cleaning. Mabel called it the souvenir room.
It was as richly decorated as the rest of the house but was more suited to Jared’s dark and masculine style rather than Arabella’s light and airy style.
Its walls were a rich deep matt chocolate that seemed to absorb the light coming from two good sized windows. The room’s crown molding, baseboard trim, and …show more content…
She’d read her great, great, great, great grandmother’s diary and there had been nothing in it about Atlanta.”
“The Anderson family and yours – as slaves – came west during the Civil War; before the burning of Atlanta.”
“Why are you showing me this?”
“Because you need to know the truth.”
“I told you, I’m not trying to stake a claim against the Andersons even though they did take my family’s land. Land that had gold on it. And it was that gold that bought this house and the one in Greeley. OK. So maybe, I do want to know how they justified stealing our land and giving us nothing in return.”
“Humph,” said Mabel.
“That’s why I brought you here.”
Mabel walked over to one of the floor to ceiling bookcases, reached up and pulled a dusty leather bound book from one of the upper shelves. She took the book and laid it gently down onto the round burled wood table, opened it to a section marked by a ribbon, and beckoned Ruby over.
“Look here,” she said. Ruby peered over Mabel’s shoulder. What she saw amazed her. It was a Bill of Sale. It
Ruby checked on Lucas, who lay sleeping peacefully in his crib, before following after the petite white haired woman, who had so much Caucasian blood that it was impossible to tell, just by looking at her, that she was not White.
They walked down the silvery blue hall with its dark hardwood floors past Jared Anderson’s office to a room that they’d skipped during their cleaning. Mabel called it the souvenir room.
It was as richly decorated as the rest of the house but was more suited to Jared’s dark and masculine style rather than Arabella’s light and airy style.
Its walls were a rich deep matt chocolate that seemed to absorb the light coming from two good sized windows. The room’s crown molding, baseboard trim, and …show more content…
She’d read her great, great, great, great grandmother’s diary and there had been nothing in it about Atlanta.”
“The Anderson family and yours – as slaves – came west during the Civil War; before the burning of Atlanta.”
“Why are you showing me this?”
“Because you need to know the truth.”
“I told you, I’m not trying to stake a claim against the Andersons even though they did take my family’s land. Land that had gold on it. And it was that gold that bought this house and the one in Greeley. OK. So maybe, I do want to know how they justified stealing our land and giving us nothing in return.”
“Humph,” said Mabel.
“That’s why I brought you here.”
Mabel walked over to one of the floor to ceiling bookcases, reached up and pulled a dusty leather bound book from one of the upper shelves. She took the book and laid it gently down onto the round burled wood table, opened it to a section marked by a ribbon, and beckoned Ruby over.
“Look here,” she said. Ruby peered over Mabel’s shoulder. What she saw amazed her. It was a Bill of Sale. It