He waited to see what his response would be. Suddenly the pitter-patter stopped. xxvideo And yet, at the same time, Catherine was so terrified she thought she might scream … House and field slaves, Tom Shepherd, the only overseer left at White Orchard … all now watching her as the enemy soldiers systematically degraded her before them. Nothing could be allowed to detract from its execution, so this new evidence raised the stakes somewhat as far as Catherine was concerned. The uproar abated. The rains had stopped but she felt the small stoned gravel digging into her skin and the slippery mud underneath her bare feet as they traversed the pathways and then the open land that prefaced the block. A tear rolled down her dusky cheek as the young slave held
