Personal Narrative: Miles Of Slavery

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Miles of Slavery It was a muggy Saturday morning, and I had just awaked from minimal sleep due to Hurricane Barbados. It ripped through South Carolina last night causing a levee just outside of my master’s plantation to break and cause a flood all around. I escaped the water and ran to the woods. I spent the night 30 feet in a tree fearing for my life. While in the tree I began to calculate that I had run 5 miles from the plantation by now. The water was trapping me on all sides this means I need to survive until I could make it out of here or be found by my master. Most slaves hate their master but I on the other hand did not he was a nice man when he wanted to be, with a mean side when I didn’t do something right. I will never forget …show more content…

I told her, “ I’m going to go work in the fields and when it’s lunchtime tell your father your going to come get me for lunch, when you do this your going to come find me and we will run off together”. The plan was all set that day I woke looked outside and just my luck it was raining, so I postponed the plan till tomorrow. Bailey and I played cards with her mother in the kitchen all afternoon, as we couldn’t work outside that day. That night I could not sleep not one ounce of my body was going to sleep. I began to change into warm clothes that would last me awhile as I didn’t know how long I would be on the run. The morning was just an ordinary morning for Mrs. and Mr. Davis but not for Bailey and I we were running away. I told Mr. Davis, “ I want to go check on that back field today last time we had many weeds growing and I want to work them under this morning if that’s fine by you”? He allowed me too go so I ran to the barn grabbed a hoe and took the path too the field. I turned around in the barn to feed the horses and cows because I forgot. That morning seemed like forever in that field, I was on my last row about too come in when Bailey came running down the trail. She told me, “ Mr. Davis had over heard about our plan and he was planning to kill you at

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