James later proposes that Queen be trained as Jane's lady's maid. Although Jane and Queen are half-sisters, the family does not acknowledge that relationship. She and James welcome a daughter, Jane, whom Queen attends and serves. Later Lizzie learns that she has become pregnant. Still in love with Easter, James continues to visit her frequently at night during both his engagement and his marriage.

James proposes marriage to Lizzie the next evening she accepts, and the pair are later married. Captain Jack begins to refer to the baby as Princess, but, when James enters the birth in the record book, he writes the name Queen, and leaves blank the section for the name of the father. She vows to her mother that she'll never marry him, but her mother persuades her otherwise. Lizzie, who is present for the dinner, concludes that the new baby is James' child, excuses herself from the table and throws a fit. As the Jackson family dine with acquaintances, Captain Jack announces that a slave child has been born, and assures James, 'Easter's doing just fine'. On April 8, 1841, Easter gives birth to a healthy girl. to marry Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Perkins, the daughter of a wealthy neighboring planter.

Several months later, while they are alone, Easter reveals to him that she is pregnant with his child. retreats to the comfort of the weaving house and he and Easter make love. James Jackson Sr., an Irish immigrant who has accumulated considerable wealth, becomes ill and soon dies, leaving his wife Sally a widow. Easter is the daughter of an African-American house slave, Captain Jack, and Annie, a part- Cherokee slave who is no longer on the Jackson property. James Jackson Jr., the son of the plantation owner, and Easter, a slave who works in the weaving house, have both grown up on the estate, and gradually their feelings for each other have developed into romance. The series begins on Forks of Cypress, a plantation near Florence in northern Alabama.

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