Their relationship had been an off and on affair. He and Angela grew apart in the five years since graduation, the distance between Durham and Charlotte where Angela worked and lived hadn’t helped. His mind drifted back to the upcoming Thanksgiving vacation in Miami with Angela. Boy, who’d ever thought my athletic career would have come to city league basketball and that I would be motivated by career aspiration and company politics. As Cedric lay still on the big blue couch, he rationalized and motivated himself thinking, The game and workout will be good for me, plus, it’ll help me to further my company politics.
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To his team’s advantage, the chocolate skin covering his massive body seemingly held the other team’s players, in awe which was another advantage for Computech.
He knew his teammates would be severely handicapped without his six foot five inch body of muscles and athleticism. With Angela on his mind, he didn’t feel motivated to play in the tonight’s game but knew the Computech team which was filled with computer geeks who could barely walk and dribble the ball simultaneously needed him. He and Angela had been college sweethearts for their last three years at Union. As he lay motionless on the couch, he contemplated how he’d spend the week off during the up-coming holidays in Miami with Angela. On this evening Cedric was taking advantage of the two hours of down-time before driving over to the Chapel Hill Street YMCA to play with Computech’s basketball team in a city league game. He was elected President of the student body his senior year, graduated with honors and recognized amongst Who’s Who of graduating seniors nationally for the school year of 1992. He’d played linebacker on the football team for his four years at Union. He worked as an accountant with the micro-computer firm for five years, since graduating from Virginia Union University. The temperatures lurked in the low thirties in the early mornings and the high sixties by mid afternoon.Ĭedric Newsome was home after a day’s work at Computech. It was ten days before Thanksgiving and Durham could not be described as anything other than a cocktail of chilled mornings and warm evenings. Many local citizens felt Durham and North Carolina in recent years had evolved into an area affected by some type of global warming trend, not typical of the cold weather of years gone by. There hadn’t been but two heavy frosts and snow wasn’t thought of. The chilled air, autumn leaves and bright sun was characteristic of Durham for November for the last three or four years. The morning was chilled-the kind of chill that warned all who hit the streets to keep their coats close by.
Big Tom’s legendary life as the breeder would be a ghost that would haunt his descendents for generations to come.īOOK I missing image file THE LEGACY Monday, November 15, 1997 Tom in later years grew to be over six foot eight inches tall, weighing two hundred and sixty pounds and known through-out eastern North Carolina and Southern Virginia as Big Tom the breeder. The Monroe County plantation was separated from Jackson Mississippi by the great Mississippi River.Īt age fourteen Tom was auctioned and sold for $500.00 to a slaver from Murfreesboro, North Carolina named General George Newsome who would use Tom as a breeder supplying slaves to be sold and to work plantations and farms across the south. In 1821, Kali a young nineteen year old slave girl on the Hatley plantation in Monroe County, Louisiana gave birth to a male baby who she named Tom. I am particularly grateful to Kenny Jeffers, Terry Johnson, Michael Williams, and others in my group of readers who kept me going when I had burned all my energy.Īnd my deepest gratitude goes to Yasmin Fozard for her unflagging faith in me in all that I do. My sincere appreciation goes to Felicia Farrar my editor for her consult, observations, and literary support in this project.
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