From the book: This was the fate of thousands of women and children in the days before slavery was abolished. One man fought to bring...
'No No cried the little boy, 'Please no I want to stay with my Mother ' 'Be quiet ' shouted the man who roughly pulled his mother from him. She was taken to a raised platform and offered for sale, immediately. The heart-broken mother was to be separated from her little boy for the rest of her life.