Someone Knows My Name 200-469

Fanta has had her baby and Aminata lets the people know. She meets a man name John Clarkson who takes good care of her and she tells him some of her story. Chekura still brings her food and they are still friends. They were taking Aminata and Fomba somewhere they did not know. They had just been walking for a long time. They meet people and Aminata explains to them what her and Fomba's village back home was like and how they treat the babies there. When Aminata got sick a woman named Georgia housed and took care of her and even though it killed Aminata not being able to go outside it was very helpful in making her get better. She was better in time for indigo harvesting and they went through more than one cycle of this. Aminata gave Chekura a yellow wrap she had received delivering a baby and Georgia said she should not give him anything at all. Robinson Appleby returned to their plantation in December and by that time Aminata was only three moons from having a baby. Appleby told her to throw her clothes in the fire or he would make it worse for her than it already was. Georgia just stood there without saying anything. Appleby cut all her hair off and shaved her head. Appleby told her that her baby belonged to him. She named her baby Mamadu after her father. Her husband Cherkura came back fourteen days after their son was born. Aminata woke up one night to her 10 month old baby crying but soon realized it was not next to her and Appleby had taken him and given him away to a man on a carriage. Georgia told her that her man may have been sold or hired out if he didn't come back but Aminata did not believe her. Soon after Appleby sold her to Solomon Lindo in Charles Town. She missed Chekura terribly and wanted to be with him. Mrs. Lindo seemed pleased to meet Aminata and that Mr. Lindo had said a lot about her. Aminata and Dolly walked about the town of Charles Town and Aminata tried  to get used to how different it was. A few months after she got there she helped deliver Dolly's son Samuel. She worked as a self-hire midwife for many years but she was sad she'd never got to see Georgia again. There was a British invasion that she got to experience also. She had been in Canvas Town where a lot had been going on with British activity. She told Colonel Baker she wanted to go to Nova Scotia. One evening she got asked by guards if she knew and man and it ended up being Chekura so of course she hugged him and was so happy to see him. Chekura worked with Aminata and they were happy to be together again. Aminata had said she trusted the British because they said they would protect her and they did. When she went to Nova Scotia she discovered it was colder than Charles Town. Aminata was pregnant again and her first winter in Nova Scotia disease struck their town. She named her daughter May after the month of her birth. After May's third birthday she told Aminata that someday they would go back to their homeland. One night she lost May and ran all over town screaming and looking for her but no one seemed to know where she was. She found out that the Witherspoon's had taken her daughter on a ship and didn't tell Aminata. Over the next four years she found out no information about May or where Chekura was. The only thing she had was her little cabin in Birchtown. Nova Scotia made a new colony named Freetown and many people were very happy. They could get all the slaves they wanted in Bance Island so there was no slave trade in Freetown. Finally Aminata thinks she may get the chance to return home after many years of waiting. But after they had gone for ahwile the man-stealers were planning to sell her so Aminata planned her escape. She escapes and stays with some people for awhile to get food and strength. Eventually she met up with her daughter May. May took her all around her home land and to the school where she taught. She has told her story and now is with May who has a husband and she is planning to have a baby.