Samantha+Turner

=Name: My name is "Miss Tiny Tubman," I was born on April the 11th. I'm 18 years old. You may know my grandmother, the famous " Harriet Tubman." Im owned by Miss Master P. She pretty cool until her and her boyfriend gets into it. I hate being a slave because your owned and you cant say anything because your voice doesn't matter. I live in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on a plantation with my master its only me and my little brother Antonio now. My older sister, Melody has already escaped, and im waiting to get on the Underground Railroad, with my grandmother so I can to be free. If you ask me I believe slavery is not fair. Slavery... the name even sounds ridiculous. To own another one of Gods people, living in the same area, breathing the same air, using the toilet the same as any one else, why would you want to own someone. It only shows a sign of lazyiness, people not wanting to get out and do their own yard or pick cotton for their own, they beat us and hit us and make us sit in the hot blazing sun doing all the work. And the worst thing about the whole deal is we not even getting paid for doing all this work, no thank you, no appreciation. Its just torture and I think whoever in their wrong mind, to come up with this torture, for the color of our skin need to be slapped multiply times and made to do the work that they put us through. But I believe by me being a slave I will be a strong african american woman. One day I will wake up to a lovely home with smart and beautiful children and a loveing husband knowing that all of us are free and we do not have to be owned by anybody.=

=A page from the journal of= = = ==Entry Number 1: I hate living like this. I want my own, I just want to be free. I get tired of being told what to do, being beaten for the most unneccesary stuff. Being beat for being tired or being beat for working slow because im sleepy and scared of being raped again by my master's boyfriend. I pray to God but it's seems like he's not listening. Im just gone wait until my grandma come and rescue me I will not give up, im gone keep praying to God and one day I will be free.==