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The Legacy, Chapter 1: Three Oaks
Date: 3/23/2015, Categories: Wife Lovers, Author: stormdog100, Rating: 21, Source: LushStories
that knew it was evil, Beth; he was fighting for his way of life, for his family. He was frightened, like so many that didn’t know how they could possibly go on if things changed so much. I don’t think Alfred was an evil man, not at heart; he was doing what any man would do, simply trying to survive and provide.” Alfred was actually her great-great-great grandfather, Alfred Pettigrew, five generations past, and the last of the Pettigrews to be a slaveholder. He had fought in the war, rising to the rank of major in the Confederate States Army, and had returned home after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox to find his home destroyed and his family and the few remaining slaves – free men, now – scattered and struggling. By force of will he had pulled them back together and, after a few years in primitive conditions, eventually built the old log and timber farmhouse that Beth and her husband, Robert, now called home. To those former slaves that had been willing to stay and help rebuild, and to get the plantation operating again, he had deeded to each family twenty acres and helped them to build homes, usually of timber and logs like his own, but smaller. Henry’s ancestors were some of the few that had chosen to stay on, and his family had since bought out one of the other former slave families; the forty acres on which Henry’s home was located was the resulting property, and was folded within the remainder of the Three Oaks estate, itself down to less than four hundred acres at this ...