Harriet's Quilt

	This story is a general work of fiction in 7 parts inspired by a reading of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Although the main characters are fictitious much of this story is based on actual historical figures and events. Reader’s discretion is suggested.
	HARRIET'S QUILT - Part IV

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im had gone an� found them two boys when he came up north. Missus Douglas, bless�er soul, had gone an� darn the good deed an�freed my Jim. She even gave money to him some so he can buy us our boys back. But them white farmers, seein� he wuz a nigger an� all got suspicious an� all an� wanted to take him as a slave again.

Jim gots away from�em an� he�da ax�d one�a them �blutionists to help him stole the two boys outta the farm they wuz at. Jim never tol� me none how he gots to know where the boys wuz an� I knew better not to ax� him too much.

Then he gone an� found me in Missouri workin� in one�a them cotton farm, he wuz darn well happy my Jim. You ain�t seen no man so happy as my Jim wuz then. He wuz laughin� then he gots to cryin� an� then laughin� some�mo. I wuz juz standin there lookin� at him not knowing he wuz laughin� or cryin� no�mo�.

He grabbed them two boys screamin�, �theres yo� mama, theres� yo� mama, I darn tol� you boys I juz knew we�da find yo�mama in this here place!� When we caught up with oursels�, we juz held each other an� wuz givin� oursels� hugs an� kissin� all over an� we�d darn well �mbrassed oursels� right there on the road to the cotton farm.

But it wuz a kinfusin� time when we gots to be together agin. Sumpin� �bout some Dred Scott fella an� us nigger folks bein� �Merican folks none, that we be slaves an� property no matter where we go, paper or no paper, north or south. It wuz some scary times too, we wuz always �spectin Mister Jones or them folks from them boys� farm to come knockin� our door an� slavin� us agin�.