Through the Storm (Le Veq Family #1)

by Beverly Jenkins

Although the woman had originally introduced herself as Araminta, Sable learned that the rest of the world knew her as Harriet Tubman and that she was very famous. It seemed Mrs. Tubman stole slaves. Many slaves.

You can’t make a man love you, so—if he could do without me, I could sure do without him.

For three generations the women in her line had lived as captives, unable to breathe free, walk free, or live as they chose, but now the circle had been broken.

He swore he saw his future in her eyes.

Ugh. So cute

like the famous slave York, owned by William Clark, traveled West as a member of the Lewis and Clark party and proved to be a valuable member of the expedition.

“Even queens need to be held now and again.”

On January 31, 1865, the House of Representatives passed the unprecedented Thirteenth Amendment. Unlike the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, which abolished slavery only in those states at war with the Union, the new amendment outlawed slavery everywhere in the United States. The next day, February 1, Senator Charles Sumner sponsored a Black Boston lawyer named John Rock for the right to practice law before the Supreme Court. He was the first man of the race to be afforded such a distinction. Eight years earlier, in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanders, the Court had denied that Blacks were even citizens.

So they made love there, on the stairs, bathed by the moonlight streaming in through the still open front door.

Owning land was the measure of a free man, and these men would die fighting to keep what was theirs.

the words expressed by the Cincinnati Enquirer at the close of the war: “Slavery is dead, the negro is not, there is the misfortune.”

gross

“More’s the pity. I believe you people would have been served better by staying put. You’re never going to be treated equal because you weren’t created equal. Every race has a place and you’re trying to rise above yours, but we won’t let you. We’re going to tell our children and they’re going to tell their children and their grandchildren and we’re going to follow you down through time until you accept it.” “We’ll never be slaves again, Sally Ann, not without bathing this country in blood.”