a black landowner had a beautiful vast and fertile land in his village. he employed his 12 children to plow the land and reap its fruits. the farm owner asked his 12 sons to leave the land to fallow every 7 years and they are to bring one tenth of what ever they harvest to him every 6months.
the children were excited with the conditions of the land because the land was good. the harvest was always great and they became very wealthy.
their father travelled from that village and moved into a city expecting the children to continue to look after the land and also send what they had pledged to him. the landowner would send a cargo to the village every 6 month and the cargo returned empty. “there were no harvests” his children would tell the cargo man.
after years of not receiving the harvests from the children, the land owner decided to send his white slaves to go to the village and see what was possibly happening.
the slaves went to village and saw that the land was flowing with milk and honey. they saw the 12 sons of their master on the land harvesting and purported an evil plan to kill their masters’ 12 sons, their families and take ownership of the land.
the slaves did not return back to their master after they killed all the 12 sons of their master and their wives and children. luckily one of the pregnant wives escaped even though she was stabbed in her leg. this woman gave birth in the wilderness and the male child survived. the woman in pain sent the report to her father in law, the landowner in the city.
the landowner upon hearing the bad news stripped, torn his clothes and wore sackcloth. he gathered his army to avenge the blood of his 12 sons, take back his land and offer it to the last surviving grandson.
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