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Submitted by rocketxships on July 28, 2007
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I apologize for my story not being very well written for as my education is slim. I taught myself how to read and write. My masters and Mistress' would beat me if they found out I was teaching myself an education.
I remember one time I stole, well I didn't steal it, I was simply borrowing the newspaper from the kitchen. A picture of a beautiful woman was on the front cover. There were some huge words over her picture, but I didn't understand them. She must have done something for my massah to read it. He didn't care about anything but slaves. So I then slipped the newspaper into my dress so no one could see what I was doing. I got back to my tent and I was so excited that I hadn't been caught. So I looked at the blur of words tryin to understand them. It was dark and my massah saw a light coming from my tent. Before I knew it I was being dragged out of my tent by my wrist. I was dragged through the mud, water, and rocks all the way into the fields.
The next day after I was severely beaten my massah took me to a auction. I thought it was a yard sale then I was being sold. It just so happens that my brothers and sisters were there. We all got sold to the same mistress. Her name was Grace and she was very nice. I was assigned not much. I simple orders. I think this is because my skin light. My bro's and sis's ain't light skinned though. They work in the fields and did dirty house work. I would follow my family into the fields and would start to plow or pick but I would always get called to the house by Joe, my mistress' boyfriend. When I got to the house he whip me.
"I was just helping my fellow slaves!" I would think to myself, "Why am I getting beat?" Once being beat I would return to Grace and ask her what I could do. She usually wanted me to walk into town with her so we could get food. The conversations we had were usually very pleasant. We would talk about life, family, troubles. Grace never treated me like I was dark skinned. She...
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