Cotton

Cotton

Slave traders were due to arrive at the Holme Plantation which lead to a heated debate between Sarah and Aaron Anthony about safety of purchasing more Niggers for the Plantation and their use especially female Niggers.
The Foote brothers soon arrived with their group of slaves for sale. They had a beautiful female slave which Aaron purchased along with a male. He named the female Harriet and the male Charles. He instructed his overseer Gus to take them to the slave quarters and give them a hut.
He later visited Harriet and ordered Gus to take Sarah’s old bed to the slave quarters for Harriet as he kissed her gently. He slowly walks Harriet into the rear door of the large mansion. He orders his female house slaves to clean and dress Harriet.
Aaron orders his house overseer to go to the slave quarters and bring Harriet to him in his bedroom chambers later that night.
Sarah entertaining female plantation owners discuss the infidelity of their husbands with the female slaves and how many mulatto off springs their husbands have fathered. Harriet overhears Mrs. Anthony tell the women that she is pregnant while she too is pregnant with Mr. Anthony’s child.
Aaron makes a trip with his neighbor to the state legislature about the cut in tobacco, rice and indigo prices and introduction to cotton.
Textile owners from New England offer unbelievable incentives to switch plantation fields to cotton from tobacco.
Sarah overhears her female slave workers saying that Harriet’s baby boy could be her boy’s twin.
Sarah has Rufus the mansion overseer take her to Harriet’s slave hut where she takes the baby and sends Harriet to the Burn’s as a gift. She gives the baby to one of her house slaves to raise.
Aaron returns from the capital and beats Sarah for giving Harriet away to the Burn’s.
Aaron takes a shot at his field overseer and warns him that he is the only one to give orders at Holme’s. He tells the overseer that they were going to convert two fields to cotton and that they were going to need more slaves. Aaron gives the overseer his gun in good faith.
The overseer returns the next day with a paper poster stating that the foreign slave trade was over and that the Foote brothers were wanted for foreign trade.
Aaron tells his overseer that they will buy all slaves the Foote’s transported to the plantation and they would then breed their own slaves.
Aaron before making the change of tobacco to cotton increases the food supply to the slaves. He hires the Foote’s as field overseers.
The cotton seed and gins arrive and Charles recognizes his old country's crop and informs Aaron how he can cut the New England seeder out of their high price for seed.
The slaves are all gathered and rejoined for better field breeding. The Foote’s are given their choices of female slaves.
A runaway slave is captured and is tortured in front of all the slaves on the Plantation.
Every Sunday Harriet would walk the twelve miles from the Burn’s Plantation to visit her son, Fredrick.
The population on the Holme Plantation increases as does the mulatto births.
Over the years an Abolishment group is formed and helps a runaway slave hunted by the Holme overseers.
Harriet is killed on her way to visit Fredrick.
Young Fredrick becomes harden and knocks young Aaron Jr. unconscious leading to all the mulatto boys being sent to training school.
Fredrick, not interested in manual work sneaks into school and learns to read but is removed out of fear of being discovered.
Fredrick is then sent to be an apprentice at the shipyard where he is encouraged to seek help from Abolitionists.
The Abolitionists are gaining more ground in Maryland until the Nat Turner revolt scares northerners.
Aaron Jr. sells Fredrick to a slave breaker, Edward Covey after he tries to escape.
Fredrick learns how to write at his new home and learns that writing is the key to his freedom.
Fredrick learns how to write his master’s signature and with the help of Merchant sailors escapes to freedom.