Terrese+Sims

=Name:Queto Profi = =My name is Queto my cousin's name was Denmark Vesey. I was born in Richmond, Virginia in the year of 1797. Denmark bought my freedom when he bought his freedom. I started this journal when I was six. I was 25 when Denmark died. = =A page from the journal of= = =

Entry Number 1:
Today my cousin Denmark Vesey was executed. I knew he shouldn't have been including himself in revolts but he's dead now. It was so emotional for me.  I was there when his neck was snapped. A sound I will never forget. I am in deep sorrow for my cousin and I am feeling sad. It is not pity it is the love and respect I had for my cousin that makes me sad. I will avenge his death but without violence. I will continue his dream and lead a revolt but my cousin Denmark will go down in history. 

Entry Number 2:
I know it has been a long time since I wrote in this ol' thing. Since Dennie's death and I haven't wrote in this thing since that day. Today the Fugitive Slave Acts were passed. Well the new ones were passed today.  Today Thomas Sims was picked up in Baltimore. I knew what was going to happen next. All I can do for that boy is pray. These laws are also unfair for not only slaves but for blacks in general. It also forced other whites against their own free will. All I can do now is stay out of the streets of Virginia before I end up like Thomas Sims or Shadrach. This country contradicts itself. 

Entry Number 3:
Today I bought a book called Uncle Tom's Cabiin. It's about a slave that goes through hard ships of being traded and beaten. I'm going to kick back and read. This might be a good book. Even though it is going to cause a lot of trouble, they would have to read it first to know how we feel and why it was written.  Guess what! Over three hundred thousand copies of this book has been sold. This must be a good book. Harriet B. Stowe better know what she's doing or she'll en up like ol' Dennie.This book seems interesting and whites are probably upset. I think she's protesting through literature. That might be my way to protest as well. But I'll have to see how it works for Harriet. I'll keep her in my prayers.



1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s?
If you did not understand the significance of slavery, then you would not be able to tell how a certain person affected the lives of slaves. For example, if you did not know what slavery was, then you would not know how Harriet Tubman affected the slave life and the life of the masters.

2. Why would slavery ever be condoned in the United States?
==To those living in the past, they thought of blacks as property and not people. But Americans later began to realize that slavery was wrong. I believe that if the Revolution or the Civil War never happened there would be slavery unless some other person or event interfered with the later history of the nation.==

3. Was the Civil War the only means to end slavery in the United States?
I think that abolitionist had a big part in the end of slavery as well as the Civil War.

4. What are some of the long-term effects of slavery that are linked to the people and events of the past?
One long term of slavery today is discrimination and Racism.