It would seem that Randall Carter, known to his family and friends as Randy, was a target of fate. An African-American young man, he was hit by a vicious rumor that he was dating a white girl. Although it was a lie, his family's life was turned upside down and they were forced to move from their comfortable home. His many problems with women made Randy celibate, but then he met a beautiful girl who seemed his perfect soul mate and loved him in return. Then a tragedy occurred that affected him so much he renounced his religious convictions and fell into a deep depression. Randy had an accident...

Emille Jackson, nicknames Aunt Millips, was reared a slave girl on a plantation from the age of five. She was a mulatto whose mother was of Ethiopian descent and whose father was a white man she never knew. When she was fifteen her slave owner gave her to his twenty-one-year-old son for a concubine. She gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl. Although they were white in color, they were black by race. Shortly after the abolishment of slavery, the children's father, Colonel Jackson, secretly went to East Texas and deeded two hundred acres of land to Aunt Millipus and their children. He...