"" Jonas, as you know...Momma and Poppa left for a boat trip back to Europe from Charleston yesterday. Momma told me 'I' was Mistress of the house now for at least eight months... She said I was to take up ALL the tasks of bein' plantation Mistress... Thing is... I knows what she bin doin' fo' you and some of the otha niggaz... Word git's out y'know.... So I is guessin' as Mistress now, I should be doin' the same... I also reckons that if we has any 'accidents' in these eight months then Old Momma Rachel can do her 'magic' cos' she got the know how aborting ya'lls black girls...""
"She became Mistress of the Georgia plantation in January 1858 when her father died...Five months later in June 1858 at 18 years of age she travelled to Savannah to have her lover Obidiah's black baby aborted.... She returned to Savannah again in 1859 an 1861 having the same services performed ...,, By June 1865 ithe Civil War was over and the slaves freed...Obidiah moved into the big house to the horror of .Georgia society and then in 1866 she bore her first child at 26 years old .. it was almost pure NEGRO !.. yes..., Obidiah's ......as were her second and third babies in 1868 and 1869."
"After the Civil War, Blacks from the South participated in the Great Migration North to Chicago. They were entirely NOT alone... Many white ladies had learned that the negro male had many attributes to be enjoyed and happily left behind all they had in the South to be the wives and lovers of the freed negroes."