β Scribed by Cain Berlinger
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
It was the revolutionary act of loving a white boy that nearly cost him his life. It was the revolutionary act of his government, that gave it back to him.
Betraying his Master in the big house, had gotten slave Ted beaten and tossed back into the fields. A fellow slave heals him, loves him, and teaches him to read. Will Ted embrace his new life of learning or find it impossible to forget the passionate flames of love for his previous white Master, and hasten his return to slavery?
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