Brianna+Cates

=Name:Hey, my name is Amereia Dawn Thomas but my friends just call me Dawn. Im a northern women living in Trenton, New Jersey. I was born July 6, 1846 and im 18 years old. I live in a cabin that I share with my mother, my 2 sister and brother. Our master let us stay here after he let us go free in 1855. Me and my mother work in the city as tailswomen. My brother is the only one who is still working on the plantation to earn his freedom. When im not in the city working, im working with other women and men who want freedom for everyone. We met and discuss ways that we could possibly help the other slaves who dont have their freedom.=  =A page from the journal of Amereia Dawn Thomas= = = ==Entry Number 1: A few days ago my momma told Me Of a Slave revolt that was planned a long time ago. She said that a man named Denmark Vesey planned a slave revolt that actually never happend. She said he had everything planned for July 14, 1822 until a man named Peter Prailou told his master what was going on. Vesey was questioned but no one told anything, even until today there not really sure if anything was every really planned or if it was all just a story. Even though they weren't even sure vesey had anything planed they charged 131 people with conspiracy, 67 men were convicted, and 35 people including Vesey was Hanged. I think that it was wrong for Vesey and those other to be charged like that. They aren't even sure if anything was even every going to happen! I asked my momma why they charged them like that and she told me that thats just the way things work in this topsy turby world. She also said theres nothing we can do about it. I think that Mr.Vesey had a very good plan to help make a change in our world. Everyone just isn't ready for freedom and thats probly why he got told on. I wonder what would have happend if mister Vesey hadn't got caught? If anything would have happend at all. I hope that one day another great leader just like Mr.Vesey can try and start a revolt withought getting caught that helps to change the world. == ==Entry Number 2: While I was Walking through the fields today watching sadly as the other slaves worked, I heard a slave. He said, that Moses was cumin tonite was gonna take at least 12 people with her. I didnt know who Moses was so i stopped him later that evening and asked him who Moses was. He made me promise not to tell any of the masters. So i promised. He said that Moses was a women who was leadin slaves to freedom on somethin called the Underground Railroad. He also mentioned that she used to didn't come pick up in the north but since they passed the slave act of 1850 shes been stoping in the north every once and a while and taking them to Canada.He said they make stops with people who are willing to help. He told me that she is a women who real name Harriett and she is a little older than thirty-five years old. I think that Harriett is doing a great thing. I hope one day that i can help her just like the people who help her. To me Harriett is doing a good thing for the slaves but im sure if a master Harriett would be badly beaten or even killed. I know that she must be a clever women to go all that way and not get caught but I know you would have to be a very brave person to do such a job but im very glad that she is putting the time into helping those slaves. == ==Entry Number 3: Mr.Turner (our old slave owner) came and talked to us last night. He would often come in and tell us about the things going on all over the world that we didn't know. That nite he told us about a book he had just read called uncle toms cabin. The book was written by a women named Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was about slavery and how people would be treated and how people could find ways to escape slavery and how they helped each other out. He told us that also the slave masters in the south denied everything about the book and that it created a big contribursey in the south. He told us that the book was written and published in 1851 and he was just getting around to reading it. He said that the main character of the book was A man named Tom who was getting traded and sold. He said that the book was very true to slavery today. He said that although he didnt treat his slaves like that, that there were many people who did and really didn't care about their slaves. He said that even though the south denied that this was true that he thinks that it is really true. I think that this is would be a great book to get the truth out about slavery and how slaves were really treated. I hope that one day Mr.Turner will bring us the book so that we may read it. I think that Mrs.Harriett really did a good thing to tell the truth. I think this book will really help the slaves on their way to trying to become free.==

Essential Questions
==1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s? One's understanding of slavery could affect their understanding of the people and events because if they dont know about slavery and how it changed. They wont understand why the people and events happend the way they did. They also wouldn't know Why all of the acts and bills were passed that were made back then. Without and understanding of slavery they wouldnt know anything about tje past==

==2. Why would slavery ever be condoned in the United States? Slavery was condoned in the US because that was their way of life. Also back then they thought the bible Justified slavery which they thought gave them the right to do slavery. It was also condoned because white thought that it was their right to have and owns slaves.==

==3. Was the Civil War the only means to end slavery in the United States? Yes and no. Yes because the civil war was really the only war to ensure that slavery would truly come to an end. And no because many small things that were done also helped to end slavery in the United states.==

==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 effect of slavery is Racism. It is linked to the past because the whites treated blacks differently making the whites think they were better than blacks. Another long term effect is also the effect of men taking advantage of women. This links back to the past because back then women really didnt have any rights to stand up to the men.Those are just two effect that slavery had on today world.==