some hardliate. wanting to go to bed and close their eyeing until the morning light. elizabeth lay down on their palette. we have dollars on us now. we always had dollars on us elizabeth said. this is different the sale is certain. they lay on the palette without speaking. his chest to elizabeth's back. his knees tucked under hers. elizabeth thought he had fallen asleep until she heard his voice. you have been a good wife. if we don't end up on the same place i don't want another. i'm through, too. we made fine children, wife. we did, husband. >> when the plantation bell rang out the next morning they were still folded together in the same position. >> and they were sold to different owners. and you are right in the book that mothers and fathers were most likely to be deliberately separated, why? >> there was coming about the talent pool and or the labor pool in where labor was needed. but also there was safety in instability. and instability and familiarity and so things were often shaken up. children were sold where parents were sold and they were sold away from one