Slavery

 Isaac Aguilera

P.6

Slave

          This is my 17th journel entry on 9/5/1832. My name is Demetrius, and taday wos a hard day workeng for Master Charles. It was a realy busy day, and ther was a sicknes being passd around by my brothrs and sisters. I haven't been feeling nothin' lately thouh, so it doesn't matter much. I've been writing a song secretly, to insuhlt Jaquavius. Jaquavius was our driver, and he was really rude. He acted like he was anymor of a slave than any of us. One of my brothers almost got in a fiht wit him, but we stoped the fight before anythin' happened. It was pertty much a reely hard day, and I dont think i will be able to get much slepe.

       This is my 18th journel entry on 9/6/1832. Somone came to brake us out of the plantaton. Everyting was normel while we were workin' on the fields, but then out of nowheer, someone came to take us. At frst I didnt trust him, but anytihng was beter than being out in the felds. He said he coulbn't take al of us, so we had to leave a lot of people behind. He said we coud come bakc for them latur, which made me feel a litle bettur. He took the old, women, and childrin, and me, to some kind of undergrownd hideowt. It was realy dark, and didn't look safe, but at least it's not a plantation. 

This is my 19th journel entry on 9/7/1832. I went bac to the half empty plantation, and freede the rest of the slavs there. I pray that whoevr helped free us has a great rest of his life. We are all still in the undergrownd hideowt, but he said we can rome free when it is safe. I am fine with this, because it is better than livin' on the plantation, and soon I will be a freede man. I'm still upset at Jaquavius for being the way he is, but nontheless he is still a slave like the rest of us. 

Note: making this blog page hurt me some much mentally, purposely misspelling so many words because they couldn't write properly.

Slave Owner

       Today is September 5th, 1832, and my name is Charles Jones. Today the slaves were not working like they should have. They were very slow and doing suspicious activities. I noticed a lot of broken tools, and most unusual of all, they were singing. I don't know why but it seemed to make them very cheerful. I had to do what I had to do to assert my dominance. They were fighting with the driver, but it didn't matter much. As long as they're doing the work they need to. Now I must head off to bed.

    Today is September, 6th 1832. Today I am infuriated to find that someone has been letting these slaves out. More than half of the slaves I bought have escaped. None of the other ones will tell me where they are, no matter how hard I have to hit them. I'm now making the rest of them work more than twice as hard, and overnight as well. For the ones that escaped, there will be far worse punishment for them. The damage the slaves have done to my money, is devastating. I could have at least traded the slaves away for something profitable. I don't know if I can get much rest now.

Today is September 7th, 1832. Today I found out that most of my slaves are now gone. This is so infuriating to find. I have called the police to investigate this and find where they are. I tried beating the only slaves left to spit out where they are, but they all claim to now know where they are. For now I will carefully monitor the slaves that I have left, and will kill them if they don't tell me where the others are. Hopefully this will all be over soon, and everything will be back to normal.

Note: making this blog page hurt me mentally, because I had to act like one of these selfish human beings.

Abolitionist

       September 5th, 1832

       I have been advising a plan to make my mark on slavery. I am advising a plan to help slaves escape, and my first movement starts tomorrow. I am going to gather a few slaves from Charles Jones's plantation. This will send his farm spiraling down, as there will be nobody to take care of it. This is only the beginning of what is to come, and I won't stop until slavery is over, even if I have to strip every slave from their owner.  I am putting myself at risk to save the many, and slavery cannot last forever, it will be put to an end.

September 6th, 1832

       Today is the day that my action have been completed. I have gathered only a handful of slaves  Charles owns, and I will take the rest tomorrow. I've taken all of the women, children, and a single male slave to help transport the rest for now, but it is not over. I will return sundown tomorrow, and finish what I have started. I have taken all of the slaves I have to an underground hideout, and secured them there. Now I must sleep down here to be ready when the time comes so I can strike again.

September 7th, 1832

       I have done it. I managed to secure every last on the plantation. I collected all of them temporarily in the underground hideout, and they are all resting now. I will leave all of the free slaves to go where they want soon. But until then we need to stay under the radar, to keep all of them safe. If this works out successfully, there will be tens of more free slaves, as of today.  This could be monumental, and could help the movement to end slavery. This is only the beginning of what is about to go down, and this movement will only grow until slavery is over.