BIRDS & DAFFODILS: I AM A HOUSE SLAVE BORN AKIWA ~ OYA, AUTHOR

Sunday, February 25, 2024

I am a house slave born Akiwa

renamed Sara

I have birthed two of my slave owners children

My fairer skin

and features

Made me appealing to him

And I had no choice but to give myself

for my own safety

My children has even fairer skin

They look more like him

Then me

So they don't know I'm Their mother

or their beautiful history

His wife could not bare children

so mine became hers

And it breaks my heart

watching them grow

Knowing the things they could never know

But I watch them as they learn to read

and do as the owner does

And I kept silent out of a mother's love

Knowing nothing good could come from the truth

They treat me as a slave

sometimes even with unkind words

Even though from me they came

But for their sake I speak no words

So that their freedom will always remain

without knowing a slaves pain

OYA, AUTHOR

AnonymousFebruary 13, 2016 at 9:21 AM
So heartbreakig to know that people walk around, not knowing their family history!
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AnonymousJune 28, 2022 at 11:55 PM
When I look at the character of Scarlett O'Hara, I see a lot of Marie Therese Coincoin the owner Melrose Plantation in Louisiana. She was the most wealthiest woman and possibly wealthiest plantation owner of all of Louisiana. She was definitely the most beautiful woman of Louisiana in her day and her will was everything that the character Scarlett was.

Only one difference, Marie Theresa was 1/2 African American and 1/2 French. And, if you have never seen her portrait, I highly recommend you do as well as read her story. After the Civil War, her son spent his whole life and most of the family fortune making amends with those whom they enslaved as 9ne of the old churches that the built is still standing.
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