Journal Entry 1
Runaway Slave
JULY 8TH, 1850 My name is Kitch Robinson. I’m a seventeen year old slave in Boston Massachusetts. I got the diary from my mother who I was separated from by a white man that bought me. She taught me how to read and write at a young age. She told me to keep this journal, and write in it everyday so that one day when (if) I’m free I can show others how terrible life is as a slave. The way my life is going I’d thought I never be free. Life is Hell here, I get whipped if I am not fast enough. I go through unbearable physical pain everyday I just want to be free. I’ve been hearing of a way that us slaves are getting free, something called The Underground Railroad. Its supposed an organization of people,