EPI 2017 - HISTOIRE - ANGLAIS - 4A 4C

When we arrived to America, we had our hands and feet chained.
We were enclosed until the auction. I didn't see my son. My daughter
was very sick! I hoped I could take care of her. There we were token
away. I was sold to a master but my daughter was sold to another
master. The goodbyes were very difficult. I never thought left my
family. His name was Jim winter. He was a white man.
Without even eating I had to start cultivating cotton. The work was
very hard. If I stopped to get my breath back, I was whipped. The
master was very heartless.
In the beginning, this work did not seem difficult to me but after a few hours it was very difficult. Then the sun was
setting, I thought sleeping and eat peacefully with some people who did the same job as me. No. I was fed a little like
an animal, not a trace of meat. I was hungry; I was exhausted when I discovered where I had to sleep.
The little houses were piled up. The men, women and children cried, screamed, groaned... of fear, tiredness, hunger...
It was horrible! They were very skinny and they could barely stand. They were worn of sheets. On my left, I saw the
slaves covered with blood, they were hanged up to a rope and they were much wiped. I was pushed violently in a barn
there were other slaves, I smelt a stink in the room. The slaves were very sick, I sleep on a pile of straw.
The following day in the morning, I was very tired because I
didn't sleep in night. I had to work all day in a cotton
plantation. I used to have to pick cotton and sometime I
pick 300 pounds cotton for day. I had fifteen minutes of
break by day.
One day, my master approached me. He spoke me and put
me before one slave men. I understood, he want we marry. I
refused the marriage. I determined ran away to night for
went in the north because I heard a man said that the slaves
run away were free in the north. In night, I ran away in the
forest. After hours, the sun rose and I walked in this dark
forest. I was tired and hungry. I sat at the foot of a tree.
Some minutes later, one man put bag on my head and tied
up my hands with rope. I didn't know where they brought me. After hours, he removed the bag and I recognized the
house of my master. Two slaves tied up my hands to a tree branch. I barely touched the floor. It was atrocious. I was
stay one night tie up on this tree. The day after, one slave untie me. I was very tired. My master and one man
approached me, the guns and leash for the dogs in them hands. The horses were prepared to hunting.
My master exclaimed «You have five minutes to go in the forest while running". I went in the forest while running
but I know there killed me. After several hours to run, I saw one big bridge. I hid underneath for the night. At dawn,
he had not found me. I went folk in the north. After six days of walk, I saw one river and one man on a boat. He said
"Give me one piece and I make you go north" I gave one piece at this men and he made me go up in the boat.
Once in the north, I found a work and I wrote my story.
4A – Alicia N-L. – Nolwenn G-R. – Quentin F. – Maximilien B