After several long months waiting for Dana's arrival home, I worked towards the succession of freeing blacks, as well as continued developing my novel. Dana’s return had both positive and negative effects on our relationship. Dana returned with baggage. She endured a lot during her time on the Weylin plantation. Seeing her suffer and faced turmoil, gave me a greater reason to fight for slavery. When Dana came back, I was still eager to learn more about the Weylin family values, and how their plantation worked. Dana was no longer given the ability, to travel back therefore my need for answers was hampered. We made a decision to travel back to Maryland for answers. Not only was this a trip for Dana’s closure, but it also allowed me to focus in on a specific topic for my novel. …show more content…
We came to find the plantation desolate and appeared to have been set aflame. Dana assumes that Nigel concealed Rufus’s death by setting the plantation aflame. Due to my background in history and research, I was able to find an article on the sale of the Weylin estate. Specifically I learned about what happened to the slaves after Rufus was killed. Unfortunately, Dana was still eager to find out what happened to Hagar and Joe. Alice had great influence over Dana. She was an advocate for Dana, and treated her as a friend. Joe and Hagar were Alice and Rufus’ children and Dana was adamant on finding them. Unfortunately, there was no success in tracking them down. We discovered that Hager lived long enough to be freed by the constitution, although they could never find any record of him otherwise. We also did extensive research looking for Carrie and Nigel, but were also inconclusive in our