A lull before the bigger storm has set in as the fighting temporarily stops. Throughout the region, debate is common as not everyone feels war is the answer.
Slave owners fear an uprising as the black population is much greater than that of the whites.
Confederate Colonial John Bretton returns home to visit his family in Manakin Plantation in Virginia. When he arrives, his worst nightmare becomes real. His parents and his wife are dead while their personal slaves hold the apparent murder weapons, bloody knives. Thanks to the bravery of their nanny, John's son survives. She hid the lad before falling into a catatonic shock.