Antebellum Stories

This is just going to be a collection of some of the stoies that i have posted up, but failed to finish! I'm sure everyone has done it haha I may or may not take out some stories because i may decide to continue them! Thanks!

Kate, daughter to a wealthy plantation owner, finds she has no heart for slave owning. To her all people are equal no matter their skin tone and this is the story of her struggle to find her place in a world where her beliefs were uncommon and to accept these beliefs herself.

Franklin's Backstory follows the history of one of the main characters of Where Fortune Lies, a time-slip mystery. Born a slave on a South Carolina plantation, Franklin runs away at the age of 12. Instead of escaping north, he flees east. Captain Griggs, a merchant sea captain, takes Franklin under his protection. Thus begins Franklin's life as a world citizen. He learns to navigate, becomes a quartermaster, and travels to six of the seven continents. He reads extensively, educates himself, and becomes multilingual. After the death of Griggs, Franklin's life takes many unexpected turns. He eventually settles as a dealer in gems in Paris. The color of his skin, his distant manner, and fear of forming close bonds means he has few friends. Then he meets Penny, a stubborn nearsighted four-year-old who is visiting with her mother from Solvidado, California, a small town on the Pacific Coast. That is where he enters the story in Where Fortune Lies. Franklin would have remained one of the exceptional forgotten men of history had not a hundred years later a honeymooning couple in Solvidado quarreled. The couple end up parting, believing their marriage of a few days is over. They did not reckon on being pulled into the events of the past. As they separately explore Solvidado over the course of an unsettling night, its secrets begin to unravel including a vicious crime, a forbidden romance, a lost treasure, and found love.

Melanie Hansen loved her younger sister, Carrie. But when Carrie moved to Lexington, Missouri, to restore an antebellum house and open it as an event venue, Melanie was pretty sure Baby Sister had lost her mind. And then Melanie's worst fear came true: Carrie died. Melanie ignored her broken heart for as long as she could, but when a letter arrives asking her to return to Stratton House - Carrie's house - Melanie has no choice but to leave all that she knows in Seattle and travel to Missouri. All Melanie wants to do is find a buyer for Stratton House and return to Seattle. But finding a buyer isn't easy with all of the restrictions her sister and the grumpy local historian, Zach Oakes, put on the sale of the house. Plus, local residents are convinced the place is haunted so offers are few and far between. Those that are made would destroy all of Carrie's restorations. Melanie cannot allow that. Homesick and drowning in grief, Melanie finds Zach's shoulders just right for leaning on. Then a business trip to Washington, D.C. leads to a whole lot more than leaning. Whoever said historians are dull sure hasn't spent time with Zach. But when tragedy strikes, Melanie must ask: is Celebration House her home?

This is my analysis of American Slavery in the Ante-Bellum based off of Frederick Douglass's experiences: specifically his autobiography 𝘔𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘺 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮.

Antebellum thought she was a regular teen waiting for the day when she could outrun her cruel past. But, what happens when you're thrown into a world where old bedtime stories were real. All it took was ,six new faces, five new friends ,four supernatural species,three new love interests, two total opposites and one night at a club. Is the Impossible,possible.

This was a short story that I wrote in my Fiction Writing class this past semester. I plan on revisiting this story and expanding on it in November for NaNoWriMo. Enjoy!

In Book 1, Jack conspires with friend Jeremy to undermine their racist, secessionist teacher's efforts to poison his students' minds with his benefits-of-slavery lectures. Will the students buy into it? Not if Jack has any say. The book is dedicated to my brother and to my old friend, Jack, the latter who, at 19, was killed speeding in his too-fast car, alone, in 1971. We met when I was a first grader at a Groton, Massachusetts parochial school. Jack was in second grade, I was in the first grade. One day Jack began teasing on the bus ride home so we got off at his bus stop to fight. I was little - he much bigger. He pinned me to the ground, forced me to quit. That kicked off our friendship that lasted years. Jack was a pitcher on the high school baseball team. He was so fast - somewhat wild. I was afraid to bat against him. He tried out for a professional farm team but didn't make it. He worked in the local factory and had no real career designs other than in sports which were the center of his life. Not long after his failed attempt(s) at major league baseball, he smashed into a tree at high speed on a quiet road early one morning. Jack had a 'hero complex' - needing to be the center of attention. He excelled at sports but wasn't interested in academics. He bet everything on his sports abilities that wowed neighborhood friends growing up. This story also is dedicated to both Jack and my brother, Paul, a friend of Jack's. Paul passed in January, 2016. I finally started Jack's story in 2000 when I began teaching in New York City. It dawned on me one day to transport Jack as a composite character - i.e., a character who has qualities and characteristics that Jack had but who also possessed ones he didn't have - into 1860's America. In the book, Jack becomes the hero - a status that mostly evaded him in real life. I think he would have been proud of the story. Many events are entirely fictional - some are not. All characters are fictional or partially so.

This collection of modern fairy tales breathes mythology into real sites, professions, and heroes, across the United States. Can a frog really be an imprisoned Architect? Can a future President learn diplomatic skills by out-smarting playground bullies? Can a beautiful, well-mannered, ghost be a threat to society? Read On!

The historical records for Mammoth Cave in Kentucky include the poet Bayard Taylor's impressions of the Cave's most famous slave tour guide, Stephen Bishop. Did they actually meet?

Horror

Hello my name is Adelaide Elizabeth Whitmore. In this journal I will talk about my life in the antebellum era.

'everything was proper back then' they say. as if there was no drama. but is that true? let's read this drama packed love story.

There was a girl who was born on Winter Solstice Eve. She belonged to the Noq people. The people of startling beauty with their stark silver hair and piercing Amethyst eyes.  She was a sight for sore eyes for everyone to see. Her looks alone could make anyone fall in love with her. Whether you were a Noq or not. She was just that exquisite. After she was born she was named the most gorgeous girl of them all. Some said her beauty was a gift. A power. But really, her beauty was just part of the curse that she was born with.         There was a girl, along with everyone else of the commonplace did not understand the horror that came with this child after birth. Only the Myxtes understood. They tried to warn the villages that this girl would release horror, but they had already fallen too deep. They were in love with this girl. Not realizing that it would be this very girl, twenty years later, who would ruin the peace between all peoples.         As a Noq tradition, a Myxtis was sent down every time a child in the village was born. This Myxtis would name the child and give him or her a gift.             There was a girl who was gifted the power of lithe and speed.             There was a girl who was named…Antebellum.

Did He know he would find her there in the garden?