The 15th Star (A Lisa Grace History - Mystery) - Plot & Excerpts
The slaves were working every minute of daylight. Every night after the Missus dismissed Grace from her sewing, she had to walk past the fields to get back to her quarters. She shared them with a slave named Seventy-Seven-Seven, who was superstitious and picked a number for a name for the luck it would bring her. Her other roommate was Miss Sally, a large middle-aged woman who took the young ones and watched them while their mothers were in the field. Miss Sally’s legs were always swollen twice as huge as her arms. It made it hard for her to walk and she could not stand in the fields all day. They had the smallest cabin and blocked the door every night to keep them safe from the men. Most of the men were afraid of Miss Sally. She was known to be violent to men and rumor was she suffocated a man once by lying on him with all her weight. When the men came around drunk they would move on and pick an easier target. Lately, as she’d been walking home nights she’d noticed that Mr.
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