Chapter Seven
IN TRANSITION AND ALL GOOD HOPE
The seeds of a better tomorrow are sewn in the chances of today
As Fortune, Dainty and Cody approached Isabella, the boarding line had already formed. There appeared about one hundred fellow travelers awaiting passage to Hopeville. Unfortunately for Fortune, seeing a large number of Colored people boarding a vessel brought back horrid recollections from the past.
Time ago, the people were gathered not of free will but were forcibly captured. What awaited them in dank recesses of ship holds could never be described with justice. The lives lost during a desperate struggle with inhumane deprivation would never be lost upon him.
So today, Fortune reasoned it was his duty to all those before him to grasp hold of this opportunity. It was a notio
