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formalized or planned in any scientific manner. Children happened when they did and were sold just before they reached their teens. Shenanigans were not discouraged for it was from them that new stock would come. Rather than discourage them, Charles participated in them with gusto.
    There was a lot of inbreeding. But the senior Fairfield never gave any thought to its implications, nor was he bothered by the possibility that he was sire to some of the mulatto teenagers he bedded.
    Mulattos were highly priced, as long as they were not so light in complexion as to be mistaken for whites. So, the senior Fairfield was eager to have more of them at his plantation. He used to organize binge parties to which students from a nearby college were invited and let loose among the females, which helped in the production of more mulatto children.
    David Fairfield started his own adventures with slave girls in his early teens. By the time he got married in his mid-twenties to a beautiful debutante from a neighboring plantation he had become so addicted to black pussy that his daddy feared it would jeopardize the marriage. And it did. After only two years the wife decided that she could not share him with property anymore and divorced him.
    He was an enterprising sort. Whereas his siblings were content with inheriting the plantation and continuing with business as usual, he trekked to the west across the Allegheny Mountains and settled in the Putnam County of his home state of Virginia where he bought a small plantation with his portion of the inheritance. It was more of a farm, really, although its occupants ambitiously called it a plantation. He had observed as his train of wagons and oxen and horses and slaves crossed the Appalachians that in this region there were no real plantations. There was therefore a new type of slavery where slaves worked for families as farmhands—quite different from the grand plantation slavery he had been used to in the eastern part of Virginia from which he had emigrated.
    It occurred to him that on this new farm the only viable crop would be slave children. But unlike his father, who cultivated other cash crops and only dabbled in slave breeding as a sideline, he would go all out to devise new ways of improving production. Slave breeding would be the sole business of the farm, and all arable land would be utilized for cultivating vegetables and cereals only for subsistence. The husbandry of hogs and chickens and cows would only serve to provide meat, eggs and dairy for the family and the slave population. It was important to have strong well-fed slaves who would fetch a good price at the market.
    In a few years the place became a prosperous breeding farm. David Fairfield married a literate Appalachian woman who blessed him with acknowledged children and with management skills that benefited the business. He bought more land from neighboring farmers and established an efficient plantation, with rows of cabins for studs, black females, selected mulattos, white slaves and nurseries for the children. The whole machinery was geared for the smooth and fast production of children, who were then sold when they reached fifteen. Only those boys who had the potential of becoming excellent studs and those girls who looked sapid enough to spur the most tired of studs to action were spared the auction block.
    The Abyssinian Queen had been one such woman. The Owner first noticed her when she was sent to deliver some vegetables from the gardens to the big house. He immediately harnessed her for duty as a house slave, which was regarded as a promotion. Even though the household was well served by a team of white female indentured workers, who were in practice slaves, she became Mrs. Fairfield’s daytime companion. She won this position because of her storytelling abilities and her great humor. She also became Mr. Fairfield’s nighttime companion. She was their own special pet and was therefore never in any danger of being