Tucker and Bertha, who meet as strangers on a Mississippi plantation in “If Cotton Could Talk”, build relationships and instill in future generations the courage to never back down. Dan Connor gathers a posse to hunt down his former slave Sambo who escapes to Indian country with his wife. Tucker seeks revenge for the whipping he received from another slave, the brutal Mr. Jasper, the overseer.

Bertha’s son Junior and her grandson Earl build an extensive business, angering powerful people. Learning from the elders to protect the family in “If The Elders Call,” Earl recruits a band of black outlaws to help him rescue his nephew Charlie from an NC pine farm. They sell their business and escape to New Orleans after dispatching KKK terrorists, including the sheriff and his deputy.

Earl passes family leadership to his daughter Linda, who builds an international import/export business in “If New Orleans Could Talk.” After the KKK kills her brother in jail, she plans to avenge his murder with the help of a black brothel madam with blue eyes, Betty Jones. They leave the violence of the South and join the great migration to Chicago.