Slave
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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When I Was A Free Man
- I Lived in Nigeria where there were a small village.
- I had a older sister and a younger brother and sister.
- I always was with my dad to teach me how to become a leader in the village.
- One of our men was gone of the village and trying to look for him until we herd some big noise.
Photo by Vít Hassan
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- My father and I were looking some clues to know where was that guy.
- When we kept on walking we saw his body laying there in the floor.
- We didn't know how he was killed until a bunch of white people surrounded us.
- They were hitting my father to tell them where we came from but he refused.
- My dad was no longer with me the leader now was me.
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- I didn't know what to do so I show them where we lived
- That's when everything was a mistake to do.
- I lost my whole family getting hurt and killed.
- I was running with the other people to escape but they captured us.
- They chained us and took us to their boat.
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- Couple of days I was in the ship still thinking of what happen to my village.
- I was inside of a cage like if I was an animal with other people.
- The white always try to hit us and torture us badly.
- After we arrived where they were heading we got out of the ship.
- They clean us and gave us food, our people were fighting over the food.
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- The white man took us to there village where their were a lot of white people.
- We went to this room where we were In front of the whites.
- They were talking and talking and taking other Africans to each white people.
- I got with this fat ugly white man that had me and these two African female.
- I got on his back truck tied in my feet and arms and there was a huge house.
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- My master marked every each Africans with his name on in our bodies.
- My new house was a very crapy one with no beds just dirt floor.
- My masters woke us up by hitting us and showed us what we had to do.
- We went to this field to start cropping cotton and do other stuff.
- A phew days later I met these people that they told me they were a "family".
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- I was son to the family that I met and I was very happy for that.
- I hated it when I see some white people raping female Africans at night.
- My "mom" and "dad" died because they were sick.
- 6 years later slaves were free and be equal to every man in U.S
- I started walking alone to begging my life.
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