Stand the Storm
A Novel
Chapter One
A CRUELLY COLD but bright sunshiny New Year's Day was when her mam was sold
south to satisfy a debt incurred by the master. She and her mam had shared some
honeyed cakes during the slack days at Christmastime. Both had enjoyed laughter
and some resting. And then on New Year's Day young Annie's pallet was placed
alongside that of Knitting Annie.
"Slaves ain't 'lowed to have shares of nothin'-no chick nor child," the woman
said to the blubbering girl by way of consolation. "Master own it all."
Female slaves on Ridley Plantation in this time were generally called by a
variation of the name Ann. The young girl apprenticed to the older woman who
knitted was known as Annie-that-sews or Sewing Annie. She was thus called to
distinguish her from the slave women they called Co ... read full excerpt from Stand the Storm ebook
