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$\"\"$ <\/a>Enslaved people Elizbeth and Green Flake (ages 5 and 10) were given as wedding gifts to James and Agnes Love Flake. In this segment, Darius Gray and I depicted the moment when Liz was taken from her mother and prepared to become the property of Agnes Love Flake. We know that Green was told that his mother had died. This was not true, but he was told this so that he wouldn\u2019t run off and seek her. This excerpt is from Bound for Canaan.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

She had another name once but couldn\u2019t recall it. It was a sweet name only her mama used. Mama had said it like a sad.\u00a0 song, braiding her hair, whispering, \u201cMassa say he goin\u2019 put you in his pocket. That pocket like to hold every one of us before long, and all we be doin\u2019 is jingle.\u201d Mama pulled hard to get the braids tight. \u201cHe actin\u2019 crazy. Why he want to sell off my baby for? What might you do, so young? Fetch and carry?\u201d Mama finished the last braid. \u201cIf you was mine, I\u2019d have you pluckin\u2019 flowers for the table. Nothin\u2019 but pluckin\u2019 flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI is<\/em> yours!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mama turned her around and nodded. \u201cToday you is.\u201d Tears made gold streaks down Mama\u2019s cheeks. \u201cSome folk put young \u2019uns in the field where the cotton be taller\u2019n they is. What they want with a baby anyhow?\u201d The tears glistened. \u201cI cain\u2019t recollect my mama\u2019s face, and I don\u2019t reckon you goin\u2019 recollect mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

She did recollect it, though, even after she forgot her sweet name. She recollected her mama\u2019s weeping face, her mama\u2019s stretched-out arms, her mama\u2019s legs running to beat the band when the horses pulled the cart away.<\/p>\n

That was the way the world worked for us colored folk back then. We had no choice in much of nothing and no lawful right to cling to our own kin.<\/p>\n

Inside the cart, all she could do was cry herself to sleep atop the turnips and rutabagas. She and all these vegetables were being taken to Mizz Agnes Love\u2019s daddy, Massa William.<\/p>\n

She recognized Massa William Love straight off. He was a tall, sharp-faced man with a plump belly, who had paid a visit to the old massa only a few days before.<\/p>\n

At the Loves\u2019 big house, she got a new dress and a permanent name. The dress was stiff gingham, and the name was Elizabeth. Of course, she was dressed so fancy not to please her but because she was a gift for Mizz Agnes, whose wedding celebration was upcoming. The place was Anson, North Carolina, and the marriage date was October 2, 1838.<\/p>\n

There sat Elizabeth, on a stair landing next to a black boy called Green. Her hair had been pomaded and combed into a knot at the back of her head. She was dressed in a yellow frock that matched the roses she was supposed to carry. Green was wearing a yellow shirt and brown suspenders, hitched to new pants. The pants fit him tight. Seemed someone wanted to show off how big Green was. It appeared he might bust out of those pants with one big step and stand embarrassed in front of all the white folks.<\/p>\n

Looking like a matched set, these children could see everything from where they\u2019d been told to wait.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"