How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
My great-grandparents walked all the way from Louisiana to Colorado. That was in 1859. They were both freed slaves and they wanted to get good and far from cotton-growing country. They went over the mountains, just to be safe, and homesteaded along the Gunnison River. Which is how my grandfather and my father and my sisters and I all came to be born there, the first black family in the whole county. My father called them our Seedfolks, because they were the first of our family there. (13.1)
According to Florence, her family history has a lot to do with her race. Her great-grandparents were freed slaves moving west, so they were true pioneers. They had to find a place to live where they felt safe. And they also wanted a location where they didn't have reminders of "cotton-growing country" (because that's where enslaved African Americans were often forced to work). Sounds like a really important journey that her great-grandparents took.