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 * __Slaves are Running Amuck.__**

I started the day off normally by waking up and going out in the fields to order some slaves around when I got a newspaper from the local printer.

The headline I read filled me with awe as I read the news. Runaway Leaves Plantation Along with 27 Others.

Could you believe this 28 slaves escape right under their master's nose I mean if you can't keep control of your slaves then you shouldn't have any to begin with. And to think this consarnit Fugitive Slave Act would've put some fear into those foolish to run.

But, now there are so many questions running through my head. Will it be my slaves who learn and turn on me? Will it be my neighbors? Or will it be a member of my family.

Got back from court today and by god my theories about my slaves are strengthening.
 * __March 1854:__**

Anthony Burns fled to Boston or tried to, but those Yankees turned him to the feds.

Burns was arrested and prosecuted. And it goes to show you all slaves are animals. You feed and clothe them in return for work to be done and what do you get?

A backstabbing, two-timing, no good rotten animal. But, what if Burns was telling the truth. Could it be true that his master once broke his arm for resisting his work?

I once read in a book that the same thing happened to Nat Turner and when his master least suspected it he killed them.

I'm paranoid now. From now on I'm keeping my slaves on high alert. If anybody acts up or seems suspicious will be shot point blank and up close. I’m not going to whip them. I’m going to make examples of my slaves. I'm not going to be the next person in the news

talking about his slaves escaping or winding up in the obituary.

Maybe with these rules it’ll make a lot of those slaves out on the plantation rethink their plans because I’m pretty sure the slave aren’t up to sacrifice themselves for something worth nothing.

I’ve already seen that even if a slave escapes successfully to the north the northerners can take them right back.

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Keanu Farrow

March 25th, 2010

African American History:

Wiki Spaces note 2:

Paranoia: After the trial of Anthony Burns I’ve felt the need to do research about different types of this so called resistance. I grabbed as many books as I could find about. I grabbed past articles from the newspapers and tried to piece different things together. I was astonished when I saw Denmark Vesey’s scheme. He plotted a resistance with many slaves. His plan was to have the slaves slay their master’s and escape. Two slaves happened to oppose the plot and leaked the plot to their masters in hope of freedom for their actions. Of the 137 men involved 67 men were convicted and 35 were hanged including Vesey. I was very shocked to learn about this, but I knew it went even deeper. I grabbed the next article and researched about Nat Turner a slave himself. What he did was that at a young age he learned to read. That’s how he was able to try and escape because he gained knowledge the very right we denied them. He took many slaves and rebelled against the white slave owners. They together killed approximately 60 white slave owners what was recorded as the greatest amount of white casualties at the time. They held the city under their control for a day until the state militia arrived and executed the slaves. Turner was tried and found guilty and sentenced to hanging. My hunger for more information bloomed, but I dared to open up any more articles. I feared that I need to get rid of these articles or my slaves would find them. They may not know how to read, but the power of curiosity can teach them. I grabbed the next and final article about the Amistad rebellion. In 1839 a ship filled with slaves heading from Spain was passing through when all of a sudden a slave broke out of his shackles, freed the others, and attacked the crew. They overthrew them and sailed to the United States illegally and were tried if they should either be made slaves to the United States Navy or freed to go back home. Martin Van Buren was in control and he saw things in favor of the slaves and tried to get the jury to allow them to be freed. After intense fighting they finally freed them and allowed the slaves to go back home. Astonished of how this happened I closed the articles. I must get rid of these before something else happens. I threw them into the fire and saw them burn up into charcoal. That does it for any type of information reaching the slaves.

Title: Keanu Farrow

Recreating a broken country:

The civil war has ended. Years of fighting and killing. We were winning the war until that awful battle at Gettysburg. We charged with all of our might, but those blasted Yankees held us off. Could it have been something we… no I Forgot I must’ve left the plans near the Yankee base camp. That’s how they won. But it doesn’t matter they won we lost and now the war is over. We freed our slaves and we are now trying to negotiate with the North for some assistance. We are suffering very bad from the loss and we’re hoping that they can forgive us for our treachery.