The ANCIENT DEED OF 1890
READING AGE 18+
*THE ANCIENT DEED OF 1890: The Village Where Every Child Born On June 14th Disappeared**1890. Igbogun Village, 7 miles from Badagry.*Every child born on June 14th in my village was cursed.The elders said Ogun, god of iron, would take them before they clocked 18.No one questioned it. Until I got pregnant.My name is Morenike Johnson. 19 years old. My husband Daniel is a fisherman who cannot read.On January 20, 1890, a white missionary named Dorothy Whitaker came with a Bible and a deal: _"Give me your child born on June 14th, I will save it from Ogun. I will give you $50 and a ticket to Lagos."_We thumbprinted. We thought it was salvation.It was a deed.On June 14, 1890, at 11:47 PM, I gave birth to triplets in the mud - Morenike, Amara, and Daniel Jr. Same face. Same cry.Dorothy took them that night in a canoe.Her "boarding school" in Badagry was not a school. It was the first prison.100 children. All born June 14th. All taken with the same lie. All worth $5 a day to the British Colony.At 13, I gave birth again in Cell 17, prison bathroom, alone, to triplets fathered by her son.She sold them too.*140 years later, in 2030, my great-great-granddaughter Maya, 17-year-old warden of Barstow Prison in Texas, finds a deed taped under a drawer in 2030.*Owner: Mary Johnson. Her mother. Locked as inmate #44 for 11 years.And in the boiler room of Abilene: $89 million cash and a paper written in charcoal in 1920:_"June 14th is not cursed. It is a deed. Every child born June 14th is owned. Find the first deed in Badagry. Burn it. - Morenike, 1890"_Under it, in fresh pink ink, written one day before Dorothy died in 2030:_"Nice try, Morenike. I moved the bricks. I own June 14th. - D."_*One village. One date. One family. 1,682 souls. 6 prisons. 140 years of lies.**What was the real cover truth they buried in 1890?*
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June 16th 2032. 12:03 PM. Noon after 140 years of midnight stuck at 11:47 PM. Time moved.
Maya Johnson was 20 years old. She was born June 14th 2012 11:47 PM first of triplets born 11:47 PM, 11:48 PM, 11:49 PM in Cell 17 at Point of No Return Badagry where white missionary house stood for 140 years where Morenike Johnson waited 140 ……
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