Property # 2

'Your uncle cautions you that Sarah may be very different when she returns,' my aunt said. 'She has passed as a free woman, and that experience is generally deleterious to a negro's character.'

'She has done more than that,' I observed. 'She has tasted a freedom that you and I will never know.'

My aunt looked perplexed. 'What is that?' she said.

'She has traveled about the country as a free white man.'

Valerie Martin