Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:01:33 +0000
From: Chris Johns <chris-johns@hotmail.com>
Subject: Return Home Ch.3

				Return Home
				 Chapter 3

The night with the little ones and Leroy changed my attitude and thinking
completely. I realised at last that these black men that I had life and
death control of could think like me. They weren't animals, they loved and
hated the same as a white man. In other words they had feelings like us. I
brought all of my beautiful boys together and with Hatchett we questioned
them about what they would like to do as they grew up. That conversation
resulted in all of them being apprenticed to my blacksmith, farrier and any
other artisans on the estate. Treano, Paul and Leroy were the only men that
I had sex with now, depending on my mood. Paul I slept with every night,
sometimes with Treano present. The first time we had a threesome was
amusing and very satisfying for me, and I guess Treano. I wasn't sure about
Paul, I don't think he liked me fucking him any more now than he did the
first time we did it. The only upside was that when he witnessed Treano
giving me a good fucking and seeing how much I enjoyed it he appeared to
accept that he would still grow up to be a proper man. I was, after all a
very masculine man that just happened to enjoy man on man sex.

The plantation prospered. I turned over more and more land to pasture for
my horses which were very quickly becoming the most important part of my
life. The need for field hands decreased and I sold many slaves for a good
profit because they were all prime stock. Land near the house I turned to
agriculture realising that with an expanding population food would be a
profitable enterprise. The balance worked well for me. I sold my horses in
the industrialised north where money appeared to flow like water and I sold
my agricultural produce and slaves locally. The three constants in my life
were Paul, Treano and Leroy. Paul learnt how to run the estate and
plantation becoming a very useful part of my team. Treano took on more and
more responsibility for the horse breeding programme. Always clearing his
decisions with me but becoming so good that I seldom changed them. Leroy I
promoted to overseer and got rid of my white overseers as they became
unnecessary. I retained the services of Hatchett because I needed at least
one more white man on the property in case I was ever ill. I continued to
educate Paul and Treano until they were in such prominent positions in my
business that I decided to free them. I knew that I was treading on
dangerous ground having educated slaves and this was my only way round the
problem. I took Paul to my study first. He was now 22 years old. We had
been lovers for six years but I was still not sure he would want to
continue in that role if I gave him his freedom. I would be devastated if I
lost him but I had to take the risk.

"You are a well-educated and very competent administrator now, Paul. If I
give you your freedom I am sure you would find employment in the north, but
how well you would be accepted is another thing. You may well find yourself
in worse conditions than you now live in. In fact I am sure you will. Also,
as a free man you would be under no obligation to allow me to make love to
you. However, I am going to take the risk and give you your freedom. When
you are free I will start to pay you like a free man until you decide to
leave."

He looked at me with a shocked expression, but didn't speak.

"Would you like to go away and think about what you want to do now? I will
draw up your manumission papers while you think about it. There is no
hurry, but as soon as they are signed you may stop calling me master and
use my proper name."

He got up and almost in a trance walked out. I called Treano then and gave
him a similar choice. He was older and not so easily shocked.

"Thank you, Master. I would like to remain here. I know that I will not
find work anywhere that gives me the same sense of achievement and
freedom."

Paul had still not said anything by the next day when I took him with me to
town and the lawyer's office to have the papers signed and registered. I
presented him with the papers and told him he must look after them because
if he left me he would no doubt be asked for them by the bounty hunters
that chased down runaway slaves. He already dressed properly so nothing
would change for him if he remained with me. Still he said nothing. I knew
the crunch would come that night, so at dinner I was very tense. Treano
knew something was wrong because he talked about the horses and I barely
replied to anything he said. My mind was on Paul and whether he would be
sleeping with me this night. Treano went up to bed early saying that he had
a new book on breeding that he would like to study. That left Paul and I
together in the salon.

"Now that I am a free man, Robert, will you still make love to me?"

"You know I will if you want me to. I love you so much and hope you will
always want me to make love to you."

"Will I be allowed to make love to you as well? You know I only have the
once."

"You know you will, but I thought you disliked that even more than me doing
it to you."

He had a shy smile on his face as he replied.

"Well, initially I did, but what you have been doing to me for the last 6
years has become so thrilling, I'm sure I would now like to do it as
well. I know you like it because you make Treano fuck you some nights."

I was sure in my own mind that he knew what I did with Treano, and it was
also possible they had talked about it together.

"Yes I do, because I love to feel another man in me. Would you like to do
it tonight to celebrate your freedom?"

"Oh yes please," he gushed, with a broad grin on his face.

I was so lucky. He had grown into such an incredibly handsome young man,
and now I would have him willingly. Maybe I had for some time, but now I
knew that whatever we did together would be because he wanted to. I would
need to talk to Treano now and find out if he would still like to romp with
me, and sometimes in a threesome with Paul. Leroy I would keep for the
occasional fuck when I was really horny for cock.

It all worked beyond my wildest dreams. Paul was as tall as me now and had
filled out more so that he was a quite stunning man. I knew I was lucky
with my two free men and my slave overseer. Hatchett proved to be a very
competent and honest manager relieving me of much work allowing me to
concentrate on the horses. At 30 years old I was as content as I could
be. I had halved the number of slaves I kept, and many of those were just
kept for breeding, and I trained the older boys as artisans before selling
them. A fancy who was a useful tradesman as well boosted their prices even
more. Girl slaves I sold off as soon as they were of marketable age. They
were barely worth the effort but I couldn't drown them at birth that was
too cruel.

I was sixty years old when the civil war started and I was so worried for
my lovers that I freed Leroy to start with, sold off every other slave that
I could that was not involved with the horses and took all of my money, in
silver, and my horses and headed west. When we were clear of the war we
turned north. I found suitable land for my horses, bought it and started a
new life.

By the time the war was over I had one of the finest horse ranches in the
country in a state named Kentucky. We built an almost perfect picture
postcard ranch with white picket fences, a beautiful ranch style house and
first class accommodation and facilities for the horses. I had all black
workers who were free men of course and built suitable accommodation for
them.

Treano had married soon after we settled in our new home and Paul, Leroy
and I became the doting uncles as Treano proved his manhood. I set up my
will so that when Leroy, Paul and I were dead they would inherit. I suppose
it was my happy and comfortable life that was partly responsible for my
long life. I was the last one to die having to suffer the deaths of Leroy
first, then Treano and finally Paul. After he died I helped Treano's boys
take over the ranch and was well satisfied when I finally became bedridden
that they would manage without me.

I had seen an incredible change in my country after the Civil War, blacks
were generally treated no better than they had been as slaves so I ws so
pleased I had left the southh and brought my best people to this new
location where they could live well and propser. They had, after all
brought me great joy after the death of my parents.

As to my sisters. I had seen them both married to army officers. They loved
the life of a serving officer's wife which at time in the nation's history
was quite splendid. I never heard if their husbands survived the war and
was not interested enough to enquire. I had honoured my undertaking giving
both of them quite lavish weddings at the plantation and supplying their
husbands with quite splendid mounts for their careers.

				  The End
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