Book three of this series will cover three generations of the Bascom Family. We will travel back to the Stewart Plantation where Tobias’s grandfather, Tobias Samuel Bascom, and his twin sisters, Ms. Ruby and Ms. Pearl, were born into slavery.
We will experience Antebellum Georgia on the Stewart Plantation as Samuel, Ruby and Pearl strive to keep their little family together. We will see what it was like as Samuel risked everything in order to keep his sisters safe as Sherman’s March on Atlanta threatened everyone in its path.
We will watch these three young people struggle to find employment during post war Atlanta. Slaves no more, they sadly learn there are other ways people are held in bondage. Determined to make a way for himself, Samuel refuses to take the easy path—returning to Master Stewart’s employment. Although all three of them would be assured a roof over their heads, food in the belly, and even a fair wage for the labor they would be expected to do—Samuel knows he would always remain a slave in Master Stewart’s eyes, and even more damaging, Mr. Stewart would always be, Master Stewart, in his.