Women in Time Ch. 01
Date: 18.01.2009Keywords: Ch., 01, Women, in, Time,
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May 5, 1900
I believe that my time is coming to a close soon. I have been putting off this diary entry for far too long already. I suppose that I had hoped that I would have more time. More time to help the women of my family come into their own strength. I wish that I could do more but I suppose at this late date the only thing that is left to me is to write down what has happened in my life. I want the others to know. I want the women of the family to know that we came from good solid stock.
I was born in Virginia on the plantation that mama was owned on. I know some will say oh Mr. Lincoln he outlawed slavery in 1868, but that is not to say that is when it truly ended. It took a long time later for everyone to acknowledge it and if truth be told I don't think that anything truly has changed. Well, what used to happen in public now happens behind closed doors.
Mama was fifteen years old when Mr. Houston noticed her finally. Mama never talked much about it but I think that she was happy that he was the first to notice her instead of one of the man that owned tobacco plantations around the farm. See mama was born in 1786 and the family had been owned by Mr. Houston. His missus died when mama was an itty bitty girl, but she used to tell me that Mrs. Houston was a horrible terrifying woman.
None of the slaves wanted to cross paths with her. But they all hated her for different reasons. See she could not have children with Mr. Houston. She had been thrown from a horse early in their marriage and hurt herself badly. The physician figured that she damaged her woman parts inside and that stopped her from being able to have children. It made her a very bitter woman before she had really had a chance at happiness.
Mama said that she started catting around. She would pick out one of the male slaves and take him into her bedroom. Mrs. Houston never wished to share a bed with her husband because it just reminded her of their lack of children. She favored a few of the men. They were so terrified that she would have them whipped, sold or killed for turning her down they went to her without question. There was always the possibility that she would cry rape and have them killed if they didn't pleasure her fully. Mama said that the men did everything that they could think of to please her. It was normal to hear Mrs. Houston howling like a stuck pig in the middle of a hot day as one of the men put it to her.
She was like a bitch in heat around them, she constantly was fondling them and stroking them to the point that they would need to release into their britches. When that happened she just laughed and told that it served them right for being wicked and devil spawn. Some of the men came to hate and resent her something fierce. She hated the women for an entirely different reason.
Mr. Houston had decided to turn a blind eye to what his missus was doing because there simply was no help for it. She wished him to not touch her and stay out of their marital bed. He did what any healthy, young, virile man would do in his situation; he started bedding the slave women. Word got around that he was very gentle and gave a woman great pleasure even though she was a slave. He was selective about who he bedded down.
He never picked a woman newly married knowing that she was probably trying to have her husband's baby. He also allowed the Negros to marry. He believed that marrying and bedding was better then laying everything that had a pussy and two legs in hopes that a woman had a child. The slaves were super secret about it and made sure that it did not get around because they did not wish for him to have to change his ways because of what his neighbors would say to him. He also never bedded a woman before her bleeding time started. He said with all of the ripe women around he did not wish a child.
Mama told me later that he took some of the older women to bed. He enjoyed them mama said and they enjoyed their time with him. They never demanded anything from him and he always cared for them as people and not work animals. Well the missus found out about him bedding the female slaves and she became vicious. Her venom was felt all over the plantation. She went out of her way to find out who he was bedding and made their lives harder when Mr. Houston was not home. She took delight in harming the women that gave him pleasure.
The slaves were growing tired of her. They dared not mention anything to Mr. Houston because although he was a generous man, the woman was in fact his wife. He had a duty to side with her against them if things went badly. Mr. Houston, however, knew some of what his wife was doing and as much as it pained him he could not come down on the side of the slaves over her. Her father was an important man and she would run to her daddy and spill the news of what had been going on but omitting her part in things.
Things came to a head when she had a young girl whipped because she would not tell Mrs. Houston who her husband had spent the previous night fucking. The girl truly did not know and begged the missus to believe her. She did not believe her and whipped her harder. By the time she was doing the girl was covered in open welts, but the worst was that one of the marks cut open her face. The girl had been very pretty and was the young sister of one of the men that Mrs. Houston favored.
The men were enraged that Mrs. Houston had looked possessed as she had beaten the young girl. Mr. Houston received a telegraph regarding an urgent business matter that he needed to take care of in Baltimore. He told his wife of it and showed her the telegram as she naturally did not believe him and said that he was probably just off to buy more sluts for himself. Mama said that he was so broken up about how badly things were that he left quietly without any word to anyone.
The head cook in the kitchen overheard everything. When the evening meal and chores were finished she hurried down to the shack houses and told the slaves what happened. The men gave each other a look and several of them slipped out of the shack and met together. They decided that it was long past time for the missus to be brought to task for her ways. With Mr. Houston out of the way it would be much easier. They planned on giving her what she obviously needed and making her into what she accused their sisters, nieces, mothers and friends of being, they were going to turn her into a slut, for them.
They knew the schedule of how things went fairly well, Friday night seemed to be the ideal choice. No one visited until Sunday afternoon at the earliest after church was finished. They would have two days to cure her of her problems. They waited all week long anticipating Friday with a relish that none of the slaves forgot for the rest of the missus' life.
The men gathered in one of the less frequently used rooms in the house and waited until all of the evening chores were complete. They told all of the slaves to stay out of the house until after Sunday mass. They had all cleaned up, shaved, and stripped their clothing off while they waited. The six men that stood there had been in her bed before but always as the bottom. She wanted to control the sex. She would have her pleasure and then leave them high and dry.
Mama says that none of the slaves except those six men knew what really happened up at the big house that weekend. Many spoke about how they heard Mrs. Houston screaming at first that she would have them all sold or killed and the same would happen to their families but by the time Saturday morning rolled around she could be heard begging them to fuck her harder. The only thing that the men would say afterwards was that she had been thoroughly used and fucked by all of them in all possible places and combinations.
Mr. Houston came home to a changed wife. She was quieter then before but she was much less uptight and no longer ranted and raved about him taking the slave women into his bed. He wondered about it and discretely asked around the plantation what happened but no one was talking. I think that he probably just eventually stopped asking. He did notice that she no longer took just one man into her bed at a time but usually two or three. He did not nay say her but was mildly curious as to how his quiet mean wife had suddenly started taking on several of the well endowed male slaves at the same time.
It was an enormous surprise when the missus found out she was pregnant. Mama said it was like a strange hush fell over the entire plantation. Everyone knew that the baby was not Mr. Houston's as she never allowed him into her bed again after he had come back from the trip to Baltimore. The decision was made that she would merely say that it was a surprise and they were wildly happy about the upcoming arrival. Secretly they planned to state that the baby died in child birth and have the slaves raise the child as it was obviously going to be a Negro baby.
No one ever got the chance to put all of the plans into action. When mama was fifteen years old the missus went into the labor room and never came back out again. The wet nurse eventually told me that the baby had been twisted around and was so big that they could not get it turned the right way. Because of this the baby died but so much of Mrs. Houston was torn up inside that she bled out.
A kind of silence descended on the plantation, no one was sure what to say or do. The older women finally came out of the pained silence and pushed everyone back into work. They stated that the plantation needed to keep running because eventually Mr. Houston would marry again and the new missus would not wish a run down home to come to as a new bride. What they didn't realize is that Mr. Houston never wished to marry again. He was embittered by it and decided that it was much easier to have a mistress.
That was when he noticed mama. She had just turned fifteen and was stunning. She had not been touched by any of the men or boys because her mama was a vicious woman that was one of Mr.
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Keywords: Ch., 01, Women, in, Time,