EPI 2017 - HISTOIRE - ANGLAIS - 4A 4C

After two months of hell on the slave ship, I arrived in America.
I was sold to master Arnold Wood. He already had a lot of slaves.
He lived in a big farm. When we arrived, I saw a slave who was
whipped to death and when I asked to another slave who worked on
the plantation, he told me that it was his punishment. I was
speechless. I saw him. He suffered and his wrists were tied to a tree.
A white man didn‟t stop whipping him. It‟s where I would pass the rest of my life. It made already three weeks
that I was imprisoned here. In the morning, I woke up at dawn, and in the evening, I slept at sunset. I didn‟t feel
right here. I didn‟t have the taste from life, no taste for anything. I was considered as a machine for work. I
suffered very much.
That morning, my master told me to work on the plantation.
The job was rough. It had been a long time that I was doing the
same thing. It was hot, I had a headache and my heart beat faster.
I was thirty! I must drink. Without thinking, I ran to the guard
who passed by, asking for water. He responded that I was not
worthy to his cold water. The look in his eyes when he responded
me always stayed in my head. He laughed at me. It was too much.
When he insulted me, I shot my pick above his head. He screamed, and ten men arrived. I didn‟t have time to
escape because three guards caught me, tied me up and punched me. I was helpless. When I got up, the slaves
and the white men surrounded me. I was in the middle of their attention, tied up on the chair. A man spoke:
« It would be a lesson for everybody»
He approached me and he whipped me cruelly.
« You are only meat for the dogs, you are a nigger, an animal, you don’t deserve to live”
Silence. And I felt a blade under my skin. I screamed! He engraved something in my back. It hurt so badly when
he did it for a few minutes. At the end, he released me and he went back. He had written: SLAVE.
Some women lifted me and brought me to their houses. They treated me because I suffered. They put me in bed.
It hurt so much. After many hours of suffering, I slept. During the rest of my slave‟s life, I never spoke. I always
did my job.
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