Constitution Forever in the USA

By Ian McLeod

In the 1700's in America, there was slavery and the slaves were brutally mistreated or killed particularly in the South, including Charleston.

Black men were soldiers for America in the Revolutionary War against England and were patriots who fought in the American wars for liberty.

It is also about a white family, the McDonalds, Charlie and Mary, who own a large farm in Virginia with many slaves used to grow, harvest and cure the tobacco. They have three children, Angus, John and Shawn.

The slaves are well treated on the McDonald Farm and are essential to the success of the tobacco harvest. The McDonald family is wealthy with gold and silver English coins and loyal to the British Crown before the Revolutionary War.


The Constitution Preamble

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781543995459

Ian McLeod

Ian McLeod is a retired patent attorney, having spent fifty years running his own private practice. He holds three degrees from the University of Michigan in law, chemistry, and chemical engineering. In his free time, he restores and drives antique cars.

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ISBN 978-1-54399-544-2 Ebook 978-1-54399-545-9

Table of Contents

Prelude

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Epilogue

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Prelude

In our country we must never let this revolution to our Constitution happen

By Ian C. McLeod

There are traitors in our country now who want something to dismantle our Constitution, created by our long-dead forefathers. This would destroy what our forefathers fought and died to preserve. The first Constitution is attached.

The stories are fictional accounts of Black and White people, before and during the American Revolution in the 1700’s and early 1800’s, which freed America from English rule. The characters are fictional. A few famous people, who were significant in this period are included, the rest are fictional.

In the 1700’s, in America, there was slavery and some of the slaves were brutally mistreated or killed, particularly in the South including Charleston.

Some Black men were soldiers for America in the revolutionary war against England. They were Patriots who fought in American wars for liberty.

One character is a Black woman, Rose and her half Black son, Peter, both slaves in the early story.

It is also about a White family, the McDonald’s, Charlie and Mary, husband and father, and wife. They owned a large farm with many slaves to grow harvest and cure tobacco in Virginia. They had three children, Angus, John and Shawn; the oldest to the youngest.

The slaves were treated well on McDonald Farm since they were brought there. They were essential for planting and growing and harvesting the tobacco. The McDonald family was very rich with gold and silver English coin. The family was loyal to the British Crown before the Revolutionary War.

George Washington was the most significant General in war and later he was our first president under the newly written Constitution, which he helped to write and which we live by. He was a plantation owner with slaves, many of them from Martha, his wife’s family. When she died, her slaves were returned back to her family, a legal dower right, of her relations. Washington owned slaves in his name, but not as many as his wife, who had a variety of skills, including making whiskey for sale. Washington’s slaves were freed when he died.

Washington was a young surveyor in Virginia and further West. Later, he was involved as a soldier in preventing other countries, including France, from territory going west of the Mississippi River. This is not the part of this story.

This novel is about a fictional family, the McDonald’s, in Virginia, before, during and after the Revolutionary War to send the English soldiers back home.

The McDonald family purchased and owned slaves to grow tobacco. They freed their slaves after the war with England. Emancipation for Blacks did not happen to the slaves in the deep South, which ended up in a terrible Civil War in the middle 1800’s. The story is not about this later war, but you will understand how it happened.

Finally, Benjamin Franklin is part of the story, a much beloved man who lived in Philadelphia. He was an expatriate, first in England and then in France during, and then after, the Revolutionary War. His story in the novel is fiction, but it could be, in part, real.

It is well known that after the Civil War with the South, President Abraham Lincoln, had had enough and freed the slaves. Thousands of Union soldiers, White and Black, died in this Civil War. This is not my story here. After the Civil War many Blacks were killed in the South, even through the twentieth century.

Attached are pictures of the firearms in the Revolutionary War which were flintlocks as you see on the cover. They fired black powder, which smelled like sulfur, when fired, and generated a lot of smoke. They were loaded from the front of the barrel with a ram rod which packed the powder then seated a lead ball in the barrel. A hammer was cocked and the trigger in the lower ring, released it. There is a jaw in the hammer which holds a flint. The flint strikes a plate or frizzen to produce a spark. There is powder in the pan at the bottom of the frizzen. When the trigger is pulled, the flint produces a spark when it strikes on the face of the frizzen. A flame enters a hole in the barrel adjacent the pan. A long rife works in the same manner.

In battles, there were huge amounts of black smoke. Firing depends on not getting the powder wet. The cover shows a rare brass ornate horse pistol from the early 1700’s, which would be in a scabbard in front of the rider’s saddle. The other pistol would be of a type used on a sailing ship, very plain.

Chapter 1

Father to Revolutionary War

The very wealthy, distant royal, Ashley family lived in London, England early in the 1720’s. They had two sons, Harry Ashley the eldest at twenty-five, their heir parent, and Charlie as the younger at twenty-three, respectively, when their parents died of influenza. Harry as the eldest, inherited a vast fortune. Charlie did not inherit anything except his good looks. The goal was to preserve the family lineage in England.

Harry and Charlie decided to sail to America on a British passenger sailing ship. Wealthy English families were going to Charleston, South Carolina to live, where the weather was warm and healthy and slave labor could be bought very cheaply. They traveled on a merchant ship, Harry was in a state room, lavishly furnished. Charlie traveled steerage with Irish and Scots laborers.

After they arrived there, Harry set about to build a mansion facing the bay where merchant ships anchored. Charlie worked for wages with the carpenters and learned their trade. He was paid the same as the other workers. Harry insisted that this work was going to make Charlie independent of him, after a suitable trade was found.

Within six months, Harry’s mansion was ready for occupation. Charlie slept on a bed made of rope on the third floor, which was for children, when Harry married.

Soon, Harry met a beautiful young woman, named Alice Chester, from a wealthy English family, at one of the numerous balls that were held at homes of the rich. Harry proposed wedding Alice Chester at one of the balls and she accepted. Within a few months, they were married in the Church of England in Charleston. Charlie was his best man. He had to buy suitable clothes for the event with Alice’s help. It was then that Harry could see that Alice was attracted to Charlie.

For a few weeks, Harry worried about having his good- looking younger brother with his new bride. He needed to keep Charlie far away from her. They seemed to talk close together when they met.

Harry heard from the other wealthy families in Charleston that vast profits were being made in growing tobacco in Virginia to the north. He wrote a letter to a man named Ralph in Virginia who was recommended by one of the local rich men. After two months, he learned from Ralph that raising tobacco there was very profitably indeed, and that fertile land was available near the York River, close to a large bay near the Atlantic Ocean, perfect for shipping tobacco to England, where there was great demand for cured tobacco for smoking in pipes.

Harry sat down with Charlie on his front porch, overlooking the bay, in Alice’s absence. He said, There is a great opportunity to grow and sell tobacco from Virginia to England. I have purchased the land in both of our names, jointly with the right of survivorship. I have also arranged for you to meet Ralph who is making a fortune in growing and curing the leaves and sending tobacco to England. I will only receive a twenty five percent of your profits. I will also give you the money to develop the land. Charlie, in a humble voice, said, Thank you. Of course, I accept. Maybe we can get together again here in Charleston, when the farm is finished and producing.

Finally, Harry said, The only condition is that you find a bride and marry here in Charleston. I saw that you are attracted to Mary Montanan. She comes from strong Irish stock that knows farming and will help you run the farm. She comes from a very old and respected family in Ireland, with little money.

Charlie agreed.

At one of summer the balls, Charlie and Mary danced all of the dances. They sat down and Charlie proposed marriage on bended knee, after telling her about going to Virginia to grow tobacco and she accepted.

Mary said, My family knows about hard work in the fields. We left Ireland because my family could not keep their lands because the English Crown was taking all of them.

Charlie said, I am sorry about that. This will never happen to us in this new country. I will fight to the death to keep our land.

The marriage was in an Irish Catholic church that spring, even though Charlie was a member of the Church of England. All of Harry’s and Charlie’s friends attended, including Alice. The reception was at Harry’s mansion with dancing in the ballroom. Charlie danced with his bride, bodies close together and then with Alice, arms close.

Harry smiled at his judgement to get them apart. He rented a small home for them in the business district until they would leave for Virginia.

That spring, Harry arranged for a ship to take Charlie and Mary to meet Ralph and stay there until the land near Yorktown was cleared for planting tobacco. A large country home was built, a much smaller version of Charlie’s mansion, with lumber cut and planed in Ralph’s mill and carried by oxen hauling wagons to the build site. Mary insisted on going with Charlie, who was supervising the build. They stayed in a rented bedroom of a house in Yorktown and made love. Soon, Mary was pregnant.

Mary had very positive views as to the construction of the house and sheds, particularly those for the slaves. At the same time, the fields were cleared by slaves for hire in Yorktown and from Ralph. Charlie carried a flintlock pistol in a holster on horseback, a present from Harry.

Charlie said to Mary, "Eventually we will have our slaves to work in the tobacco fields and live in those small houses,

which are down the road from us. There will be a separate curing shed for the tobacco."

Mary said, I am not familiar with slaves who work the fields. We must be very careful in our treatment of them. Nothing like the whips of slaves in Charleston.

By spring of 1730 the fields were ready to be planted with tobacco seed and hired a White farm Master, named Spense with slaves.

Charlie Ashley said to Spense, I do not approve of the way the field slaves are whipped and mistreated in Charleston. We need them to grow, harvest, cure and package the tobacco for sale. Charlie made certain they were well taken care of.

Charlie said to Mary, I will take a ship and go to Charleston and buy our own slaves. It will only take a month at most. I want us to have the best help available. There is a doctor in Yorktown who will visit you twice a week."

I have hired a temporary white slave master named Spense from another plantation to watch over the building of the slave quarters, finishing our home and getting the land ready for planting. Ralph will look after the farm once a week to make sure the work is done properly.

Charlie sailed on a coastal ship to Charleston. Charlie purchased twenty salves for the farm which Harry paid for. They were chained in the hold of the ship with chains, which were required for shipping.

In Yorktown, the slaves walked to the farm without chains and Charlie Ashley walked with them. When they arrived Mary made sure they were well-housed. For weeks they and Charlie made the farm ready for planting and did the planting and watering of the tobacco seeds.

In the fall, the farm people harvested the tobacco and hung it to dry. They packed the tobacco in wooden casks for shipping to England. They were now tobacco farmers and some years later they named the farm, Tobacco Gold.

Chapter 2

Origins of cook slave Rose and her son Peter

Paris France 1720 Whore District

Madam Alicia growled at her husband, Rober, ordering him to get rid of the drunken man, middle aged and dressed in fine blue clothes. He was sitting in a plush red chair with a naked blond, fragile-looking, girl on his lap, maybe sixteen years old. He had his hands all over the girl, poking hard and pinching all over her skin, breasts and private parts, hard enough to cause bruises, even bleeding. She was crying which was not good for business.

Her clients were rich, and sometimes old and drunk, and usually had difficulty in staying hard and erect enough to do any physical penetration. Her girls were very good at making the sex quick. Alicia charged by the hour.

Her bouncer, called Giant, and Rober, her husband, carried him outside and threw him into the gutter, filled with the excrements and vomit from the drunks. They kicked him until he could hardly move. Giant told him to never come back.

Robert, called Rober, was tall and thin and wasn’t much help in running the business. Alicia, the madam of the house, was almost six feet tall and weighed close to two hundred pounds. She bragged frequently about her days in bed and that she could take on twenty men a day and make them leave happy.

She despised Rober for being so fragile, having only one woman, a Black slave from Africa, she owned and used for cleaning the rooms. Rober was able to keep Rose out of the trade, since she was pregnant with his child, for almost three months. Alicia said she remembered his father a man who looked like Rober. She said he was scrawny too, not much of a lay.

Alicia, as the madam of the house, ran it for very rich aristocrats, including one who sent a soldier to collect his share of the money every three months, minus her very generous salary. The young whores were easily replaced from the streets and worked for room and board. It was rumored that King Louis XVI had a stake in it.

Alicia sent the best new girls to the castle, making sure they were not carrying a visible disease. The royals had them at parties for men and sometimes women. There was no revenue to her for that service.

Rober had kept the black woman, Rose, for himself. Rose was responsible for keeping the house and rooms clean with a few ugly maids. The girls, after sex, sprayed inside with water in an attempt to prevent getting pregnant and being thrown into the streets. Rose cleaned up after them.

Finally, after several years, Alicia had skimmed enough money for herself, to be very rich. The money was in gold coins in a very large safe at another home near the city, which only Rober knew about. Alicia told Rober that it was time to leave France with the money.

That night, at two in the morning, they went to the city home in a covered wagon with Rose riding in back. Rober had refused to leave Rose behind. Giant was brought along to help load the safe in the wagon. Alicia was armed with pistols, hammers at full cock, to ward off robbers which she maintained were along the way.

Rober and Giant slid the safe up a ramp into the wagon as Rose and Alicia watched. Giant was told he was going with them as well.

When they left Paris, Alicia suggested to Rober that they shoot Giant.

Rober said, You are going to need Giant and me in Marseilles to arrange for a ship to transport us out of France to New Orleans in America as we discussed. You need protection and a state room on board ship. You will never survive as a woman alone onboard ship, and New Orleans in America.

Alicia said, Rose and you will have to earn your keep. You and she can keep your half-white child she is carrying.

Rober said, She will never be a whore.

Alicia agreed, since Rober could turn her in for a reward in France.

The trip to New Orleans was uneventful, except Rose gave birth to Peter as the mixed White and Black child. Rober was thrilled. Alicia said, Keep him away from me.

When they arrived in New Orleans, Rober arranged for a carriage to take them to a safe and expensive boarding house with two separate sets of rooms.

Within the month, Alicia had purchased a very large three-story home near the bay where the sailors came in on their ships. The lower two stories were for the whores. Business was terrific, and Alicia was able to purchase the best women and girls, Black and White, from other houses and on the streets. She trusted Giant now, and so he helped hoist the safe to the third floor. Armed soldiers from France, who had deserted in New Orleans, were hired to protect the business.

Soon, Alicia bought a mansion in a very rich neighborhood. After a year, she was one of the most influential people in the city. She offered free access of her whores to some of the men and a few of the women who ran the city.

Rober and Rose stayed in the third floor of the whore house. They managed it well, with Rose’s help in accounting for the money. She was fluent in English and French.

Peter helped to keep the place clean at age four and grew to age seven. The date was 1756.

There came a time, in 1757, when Rose and Peter were accused by Alicia of keeping tips from patrons. Rober knew about them and did not care, since he was also skimming money. The house was making huge amounts in gold and silver coins every month. The house was famous to many sailors who talked about it in faraway shipping ports.

Without telling Rober, Alicia’s soldiers spirited Rose and Peter into the hull of a ship bound for the slave auctions in Charleston, South Carolina. Rober only found out they were gone, after the ship sailed.

Rober was given the choice by Alicia of agreeing to forget them or being killed. Rober took the few thousand gold coins he had saved from his bank and took a ship to Charleston to buy Rose