Creative Writing: Slave Story

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would end up selling you. And I didn’t want that.
I never had known my mother. Father said that she died in the course of having me. I felt sad because I felt it was my fault she died. Father said it was nobody’s fault and that he’s very happy I was born. And that he’s happy I am his daughter. Dad said she was beautiful and kind. He has no pictures of her because he was never allowed to have a camera. She worked on the farm with dad and she got pregnant. The white people allowed them to have a child. I was surprised. Especially if they won’t let you read or write
Well, dad was very up tight about the plan. He had to get us out of the state. I, at first wasn’t to hot on the idea. But then I thought about what we would be like of we were free.
Well, our plan was to leave at night. I was so scared. I really didn’t care about the white people and their farm. I just wanted to be free. It was on a Wednesday night that we were planning to leave. I hid a backpack ...

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we would hike along until we got to the station where the train was going to meet us. When we were running across the field, there were some dogs, about two, running after us. I was starting to get tired. Pretty soon, I looked back and saw a flashlight and heard some shots fired. My dad told me to run faster. I was getting really tired. We were still headed towards the trees where maybe we can hide.
We had to hop a fence before entering the trees. That would stop the dogs. But, right before we got to the fence, one of the dogs caught my dad’s foot and pulled him to the ground. I started to cry because my dad told me to run. I couldn’t stand it. I couldn’t leave my dad there ...

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