Zlebra Family Secrets

By Lillie Johnson

The story is being told by Edgar Robert, a slave who was traded to pay off a family debt at the age of 9. Being a caretaker of the East Wing and its garden and many other chores alone, having little hope because of his abusive and hateful owner Mr. Zlebra and his friends, for entertainment purposes. Enduring a lifetime of his arrogant evils toward his slaves and their families, if they did something wrong, having to watch them be tortured, around that seven-mile "happy track ' taking all the hope and laughter from his heart until Kendrick Zlebra, the son of Mr. Zlebra brought home Ms. Rose, his wife and a speck of hope turned to a trail of life to a broken-hearted soul who thought it was impossible until she gave him a hug and kiss, and filled his dry well with tears of forgotten joy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665515528

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/27/2021

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CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1 Beauty’s Beginnings

Chapter 2 I Am God!

Chapter 3 Forbidden Roots

Chapter 4 Dinner Is Canceled

Chapter 5 Betrayal Continues

Chapter 6 After Life’s Storms

Epilogue

PREFACE

When I was younger, I didn’t know if I wanted to be a photographer or a preacher. I liked taking pictures, but I wanted to whoop and holler. God blessed me, however, with a gift to write, and I enjoy and love writing.

My family lived on seventeen acres of land, surrounded by trees. I didn’t realize the beauty of it until I was grown and everything had changed back home. We had three houses—my brother Leroy’s (we called him Dula) house, Robert Lee’s house, and our old wooden shack. About twenty or thirty feet from our back door was the potato house; my brother Clarence (we called him Son) lived there. When Robert Lee moved to Texas, we moved into his house—I was eleven then—and Son moved into our shack.

When we moved, we finally had indoor plumbing—no more having to sit on that oil bucket at night because I couldn’t go to the