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Today momma seemed a bit off like her mood twards everyone was pretty dull but being a slavecan do those kind of things. To people like us folk and its makes it hard to make a living around thishere place and the slave owners are not nice people.Everyone had to learn that the hard way you doonething they dont like you either get whiped or extra work and its tireing. So we try to do owerbest so we dont get on the bad side of ower slave owner so we dont get whiped. To much but anywaymomma was starting to get a little overheated and when we tried to tell the slave owner he wouldjust keep pushing her.Then the momment came she puked all over the cotton fields and the slave ownerwhiped her but its pretty late so when got to eat then sleep. what a

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