The Color Scale

The year is 1838 and young African American boy named James has been drafted to the Montgomery family, to work on their plantation as a slave. James is 8 years old and at the time, he meets a girl named Aria which is the same age as him. She teaches him how to read and write since he didn't know how and ever since that day they have grown up to love each other. Little did they know that their love was going to come with a price.