This little road was adjacent to a much larger, much more well known office park with 10 and 12 story modern buildings that overlooked picturesque pon...s filled with swan, geese and ducks. This place was older and run down, in a grove of trees. The road was a connector from one park to another. You had to know this building was here in order to find it. I will call him Dan. Three times I had bumped into Dan at events organized by someone else. GB with a military wife, he was there. Mid day GB in. These days, hired labor was scarce and land ownership was widespread; damned few people were interested in leasing land. Anyway, 35 sections meant 140 quarter sections. That could be 280 veterans’ grants or 560 freedmen’s grants.In practice, a significant portion of that land was owned by whites and another portion was under water or otherwise unavailable to grant. And there never was a township with all veterans or no veterans.Something like 60,000 veterans had received grants in Alabama, and. Seth rung the bell and John opened the door. Slightly shorter then Seth, John had black hair without facial hair, a musculair build and brown eyes. He was wearing only a pair of boxers and a black bowtie, as he had been instruced.'Welcome master.' John spoke as he looked at Seth. 'Eyes down. A slave only looks upon his master when given permission.' Seth spoke shortly. 'Sorry Master.' John said as he looked down, not daring to look his master in the eyes again. The man shuffled towards the. When my father and Helen returned, I was just stunned speechless. Helen was a Filipina and she was absolutely stunning. She was only about 5' 1" tall and looked to weigh less than 100 pounds. She had perfect teeth, hair, skin, nose, mouth and body. She had on a miniskirt and her legs were perfect as well. She was a walking, talking wet dream. She could make a dead man hard. I wondered how my father ever managed to snag someone with movie star good looks. She had a big smile and came over and.