The Old Slave VE

The Old Slave

Hello, my name is John Brown, I’m a old slave, I tell you my story.
My pains are always there at the moment, I have scars on during the back but how this
arrived? I was born in Sierra Leone, in Africa, the slave traders to hunt us. A day, a man my
taken and my move on in a big boat, were all compressed. I was only 16 years old but I
managed to support crossed.
When I arrived on the port, everybody got out of their house and went towards us.
I didn’t understand why, but I fast understood that several chained men left as the goods, a
white man looked at me and asked to have, me I could say nothing not understanding the
Englishman, but unfortunately this man took me and took me in his house with two slaves, I
had to work in cotton fields, the sun hit hard, heat ran out but the more I ran out, the more I
received from boosts in the back, the pain was too powerful I had the impression that my
back tore away from day to day.
I ate little and I was in dehydration every day, at night I was in a kind of sailor's jacket. There
were also four other slaves with me, it was horrible, one could hardly rest, one of them taught
me the white language of the men, he was called San and he to explain me all that I had to
make to avoid remonstrance of master, when has worked, my verified master that all that we
made was good otherwise he punished us.
But men white wanted to abolish the slavery, one of these men white who was the leader of
this country, wanted we freed from this world of torture, from sufferings and from humiliation,
this man was called Abraham Lincoln.
He obliged his fellow countrymen to have a different look to us the slaves, we broke our
chains thanks to this law, which in front of God every man was equal.
I think that the men white said upper, obliges other men to be their servant, without other
choices than to undergo their ragging, But it is us the men of colors, we have to change by
standing out as to us free man, the constitution of this law which will help us to obtain new
rights as human being and not as heritage of property.