Cion ch 2

It's all about the sex. At least that is what it is like on Fairfields plantation. The owner has them have sex with each other so when they have a baby the plantation will take care of babies. When the babies turn 15 they are sold. Yet after the mothers have the babies, they are taken away instantly and the moms never know who their baby is. Eventually, this caused the mothers to regret it and even despise it. For this scene there is a mother in a rocking chair rocking back and forth saying, "I wish I would have suffocated it before it was born." The antagonist is a man named David Fairfield who is the owner of the plantation. Although he is a slave owner, he's one of the better ones on how he treats his slaves. You're probably wondering how the babies survive without their mothers. Well, they are sent to the nursery right after being born and come feeding time, a different woman breast feeds them rather than their mother. Then we have a loving and caring protagonist named the Abyssinian Queen. She is be a black woman that will make her way into people's hearts. One day Fairfield saw the Abyssisian Queen and had lustful feelings toward her, so he made her a house servant. At night she could sleep in the big house and he could come to her room and have sex. Since people respected the Abyssinian Queen, the midwives kept track of her two kids named Nicodemus and Abednego. The midwives let her take care of them come feeding time and this led to a loving bond between them. The Lady of the house never used to have a problem with Mr. Fairfield and the Queen having sex but when she became jealous because Mr. Fairfield was bending over backwards for her she tried to marry the Queen off. Picture an extravagant wedding planned for the two slaves and then having it be canceled because the Abyssinian Queen got pregnant by a field slave which was looked down upon. Then enters evil man number two. A man from Kentucky comes to claim the Queen but because of the baby, he cannot take her so he whips her. While whipping her, the Kentucky man gets so turned on he wets his pants. Can you say Abyssinian Queen is definitely getting demoted to the field? The owner is not all that bad because he is compassionate enough to allow two kids to stay with the Abyssinian Queen little does he know that it they are actually her own kids. The Abyssinian Queen will be made into an amazing story teller and will attract a lot of the other kids which could eventually lead to trouble for her. Everything revolves around the quilt. The Abyssinian Queen tells her kids that the answer to freedom is through the quilts.