Ashley+Simpson

=Name:Maryann Simpson, i am seventeen years old living in spartanburg SC. I was a slave, i was bought by Quakers.I hated being a slave, i think slavery is not right we should be able to have freedom, be able to vote on what we believe. "Slavery is just not right!" one of these days i am going to help free slaves and nobody is going to stop me!!!!!!!anybody who tries to stop me will be a dead man walking!!!!!!!!!!!because i have been beating,tortured, and threating to be hung. Its just terrible i know what it feels like. I would rather be free then to have to go through any of this nonsense so now my job is to try and free slaves......=

=A page from the journal of= = = ==Entry Number 1: Dear journal i heard about this man named Denmark Vesey, i was wanting to know about this guy for a long time,Denmark Vesey is an African American who fought to liberate his people from slavery, planned an abortive slave insurrection. But was that is real name? i questioned myself, his real name was Telemanque.==

Denmark Vesey was born in West Africa, in life Denmark captured and was sold as a slave, and brought to America.....
===Now the good thing i like about this man is that he DOESNT BELIEVE IN SLAVERY!!!! "slavery is just not right" and my opinion is that anybody who believes in slavery shall be put to death, or torturted just like the rest of the slaves, they shall experince the pain that the rest of the slaves are going through! but that is just my opinion. Denmark Vesey was a freedom fighter, he hated slave holders... in 1781, Vesey was purchased by captin Vesey from back then it was called Danish Carribbean Island of St. Thomas. Vesey bought his freedom and began working as a carpenter..........i really like this man, if i was to ever meet this man me and him would be very good friends. "slavery is just not right'!!!!!!!!!!well i got to go i have to go and try to free some slaves it is kind of like me being another moses and that my friend feels pretty good to be know as the rescuer................===

==Entry Number 2:well after talking about Denmark Vesey last week i got a newspaper on Harriet Tubman i would have never got it but she is such a good person and anybody that is a slave shall think the same thing because she risk her life for you!!!!!Harriet Tubman is known as (Moses)i love that name!!ah its just so catchy but anyways back to the subject...... hey you got to understand i was once a slave to but thats just me i dont know why im like that, maybe it was because all the owners i have been with.....but anyways... im in my room writing in my journal and all i can think of is about is the terrible life that i had back when i was a slave. Dont think that i am rubbing that in to all you slaves out there..Just remember you will not be there for long.I know how it feels trust me i do i was once in your situation i really was....but ah keep getting off track,....Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland like i said once before SHE HAS LED HUNDREDS OF SLAVES TO FREEDOM ALONG THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD!!!! the underground railroad is a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves would stay in their journey North to freedom.Harriet Tubman was born in 1820, Dorchestery county, Maryland."I LOVE HARRIET TUBMAN WHAT A SAVIOR SHE IS!!!!'well i got to go to bed early i got to get up at 530 in the morning to go and discover the Underground Railroad..so talk to you tommorrow....==

==Entry Number 3:Today is April 7,1867 i am now just waking up what a morning i want to go back to bed but i have a job to do and that is to go and discover the underground railroad and free some slaves wow thats is going to be a fun job!but anyways like i was saying i said last nite that the underground railroad was a secret network yep sure did but yeap..fugitive slaves traveled this underground railroad .BUT that was not the only choice for fugitive slaves they could have traveled by train or by boat..yep but i got to go before i get caught trying to free these slaves it was good communicating and telling you about my journey remember you are not alone i will rescue all slaves you will be free some day...==

==3. Was the Civil War the only means to end slavery in the United States?i dont think that it would be the best decsision but they could of just settled every thing in a nicer way but they choice was not to so yep thats what i think slavery was all about..==