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I like to lead the other slaves in singing Negro Spirituals. One of my favorites was "Wade in the Water," because the melody allowed voices to reach out to Jesus Christ and God through music. I am religious because I believe there is a heaven and a hell and that Christ really did come to earth to save humanity from sins. Slavery is a sin, an awful sin and someday the South will pay for their sins. I don't know how, but they will, because I have faith in what God wants people to do.

My family has been separated since we were brought to America on a horrible ship. I was sold to a large plantation owner and I don't know where my sisters went. My mother and father are both dead; my mother was raped and killed back in Africa when she tried to resist being captured. I don't know what happened to my father but I know my sisters were on board the slave ship that brought me to America. I think I was fairly lucky, I ended up learning to plant tobacco plants, how to keep them weeded, how to top the plants and during harvest how to cut the tobacco.

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I liked working in the barns where the tobacco was cured. I was the foreman because I knew how to get the most work out of the others, and because I learned about tobacco from the master and from a book Sarah read to me.

In conclusion, my natural inclination is to resist being a slave, and if I ever have a chance to escape and be sure I could get far away, darn, I would. Next time the master goes away and leaves his cousin Jed (who is a very simple man easily distracted) in charge of all us slaves, I have been thinking I might overpower him, tie him up and free all of us. But because of what will happen to the others if they are caught (they might be hanged), I have postponed that plan, at least for now. I know I could get away and never be brought back. I hate the life I am living but I am smart enough to know how to handle the challenges before me, and I'm alive and in America, so I'll go with what I have for now, and try to avoid….....

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