The Kitchen House

This is one book outside the dystopian theme that I normally read. I enjoyed the book but makes me look back at where our country came from and where we are today. In the late 1700's the kitchen house was a common term known for where the black would sleep and cook and prepare the white peoples food. they sleep on pallets on the ground and did not know what it was like to sleep on a bed. one day the master of the plantation returns home with a little white  girl that was orphaned on her trip over and as she did not have a place the master took her in as a slave and she slept with the black and worked with the black. on her 18th birthday she would then be a free woman and able to make her own decisions. During this point in the history there was a lot of drama regarding who was ok to date and who was not ok to date rape ran livid with female blacks. It was normal for a black woman to have to "service" a white master, weather she wanted to or not. This ultimately came down to la family secret of the plantations master having had a child with a black woman and he kept the child with his slaves to watch over her. This child knew that she was a secret and had to watch her father have other children with his wife and see them treated much better than her self. the wife miss judge the situation thinking that Bell daughter of the plantation owner was a mistress. this drove the wife in to such a downward spiral that she ended up drugging her self most of the time. later in life the children she had would live thinking that bell was their fathers mistress, when in reality she was nothing but his daughter. This then set in action a family ordeal Marshall was the plantations owners son and he followed in his fathers foot steps and had him self a mistress and a wife. it drove him mad the way his father died and what he left him with on the plantation. I will not give away the ending in this blog as I urge others to read it a well and to see how far our lifes have come from these dark periods of time.