Elijah is not happy with his spending times Sundays at church. This
Sunday they are going on a picnic at Lake Erie. When Emma told Cooter and Elijah they are having misinterpreted with Mr. Travis comment in
Latin. Elijah think that just her only jealousy toward him.
On a buckboard they are many people and Elijah mother and Mrs. Holton stop talking about their times in slavery. His mother remember being separated as a girl from her mother forced to accompany their white family on a trip to Flint Michigan.
She miss her mother very badly and when they are form together and she said that she had been there by Canada. Her mother slaps her three
times. She's been very angry about her daughter did not try to get away to Canada when she could.
Mr. Leroy came to ask Spencer Elijah's father how he can get his family out. He feels like there's no time left, because he has been sick for a while. The Preacher Zephariah remember a man just outside of Detroit who still pretended to buy slaves for his pity and free to there freedom.
Elijah father has notice about this, but the Preacher is willing to
go and get Mr. Leroy's family just for the pleasure of seeing them walk
into the Settlement.
Spencer questions what they really know about Zephariah he does no live in the Settlement,but
he doesn't have regular work he carries a pistol and comes and goes.
Spencer insists that someone go with the Preacher rather than let him
go alone with all that money. Leroy confronts Elijah for his opinion about the Settlement.
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