After reading and watching videos of topics about slavery, I sometimes ponder, what would it be like for me if I was in that period being a slave? Just thinking about it, is already giving me goose bumps. Let me ride my imaginary time machine and launch myself back to the year 1800s where I lived in a slavery system in colonial America that was already fully developed. My name is Jojo Deleon. I was born 20 years ago in Savanna Georgia. My mother, Linda, and my father, Felipe are both slaves, which makes me a certified slave workhorse too. My family and I live on a tobacco plantation along with numerous other slaves. There is nothing good in life as a slave. Our owner treated each and every one of us as though we are just a piece of domestic animals. Our master, never think of us as human beings. Our daily
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This I will not forget, that whip left some marks on my back. However, I pity more on my fellow slaves who tried to escape and got caught. The plantation administrators fasten shackles to the slaves feet, strapped spiked collar on their necks and wore bell to make sure they don’t try to run away again. Not all slave owner though are bad, I heard stories, that some owners treat their slaves like real people. Unlike here in the plantation where I grew up, slaves are all been treated unforgivingly and cold-heartedly. There were a lot of my fellow slaves who managed to escaped from this miserable place, some even buy their way to freedom and some were not so lucky enough and died trying to get away. The struggle in gaining freedom has been long and difficult with so many obstacles to pass. However Black American slaves had proven that whatever hardship it takes as long as it never destroy them, manages to make them stronger and prevails to succeed in finding freedom. For me, all I can think of right now is to continue my dream that someday, my freedom will be
This I will not forget, that whip left some marks on my back. However, I pity more on my fellow slaves who tried to escape and got caught. The plantation administrators fasten shackles to the slaves feet, strapped spiked collar on their necks and wore bell to make sure they don’t try to run away again. Not all slave owner though are bad, I heard stories, that some owners treat their slaves like real people. Unlike here in the plantation where I grew up, slaves are all been treated unforgivingly and cold-heartedly. There were a lot of my fellow slaves who managed to escaped from this miserable place, some even buy their way to freedom and some were not so lucky enough and died trying to get away. The struggle in gaining freedom has been long and difficult with so many obstacles to pass. However Black American slaves had proven that whatever hardship it takes as long as it never destroy them, manages to make them stronger and prevails to succeed in finding freedom. For me, all I can think of right now is to continue my dream that someday, my freedom will be