It seems like every year when we take American History, we spend a large amount of time studying slavery, since it’s such a big part of American history. When we were younger, we just learned the basics, like that slaves escaped on the underground railroad, and they had to work in cotton fields. Learning this didn’t really have an impact on me, partly because I was young, but also because I didn’t learn specific stories about how badly the slaves were treated, and get to know what it was really like to be a slave. That is why these slave narratives had a big impact on me.
<blockquote>”My father, as I said before, was a free man and had the privilege of purchasing my mother and my sister, who was then about a year old, for $600.”</blockquote>
Just the fact that a father has to buy his family in order to be with them is so sad and unfair.(Isaac Mason 13) The life of Isaac Mason was really interesting to me because his life was so hard and he was treated so unfairly.
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1 When the hurly-burly’s done » After reading the slave narratives // Jan 4, 2007 at 2:48 pm
[…] Kristen: It seems like every year when we take American History, we spend a large amount of time studying slavery, since it’s such a big part of American history. When we were younger, we just learned the basics, like that slaves escaped on the underground railroad, and they had to work in cotton fields. Learning this didn’t really have an impact on me, partly because I was young, but also because I didn’t learn specific stories about how badly the slaves were treated, and get to know what it was really like to be a slave. […]
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