My Life as Sage: Part One

This is the story of my life, and it begins before the war between the North and South. I grew up in a time of slavery. My mother was a slave and my father was the son of her Master. I was born from their affair, and sold when I was still a baby.I was raised by a loving woman, who treated me like her own, not like the slave I was, in the eyes of the law and society. But, when the war came and she was taken from me one violent night, things changed, sending me down a path of many heartaches....