About this story
Horatio Green, the white man who says he loves you, has money enough to buy you but will not put your freedom in writing. On sale day his bid keeps you near him while your mother and sister are bought by a trader bound for New Orleans, and the paper in his pocket proves only that he owns you, not that he has kept his promise.
How it opens
August heat remained in the small Richmond garden long after the street lamps were lit.
CurrerRead the notice again, Horatio. I need to hear whether any word leaves room for appeal.
The newspaper announced that Mr Graves's estate would sell thirty-eight enslaved people in November.
I promised to purchase you, Clotel, and I have not withdrawn that promise.
Choose
A purchase may keep me near you, but it still does not make me free.
Use the money first to keep Mother and Althesa together.