The burst of sunlight shinned into my eyes and woke me up. I could hear people screaming and yelling everywhere, there was so much noise. It was a horrible place they split you up from your family and they give you very little food. I miss my woman and I cannot find her anywhere, if I was lucky maybe I could get to see her for a couple minutes while master forces us to work the fields. We went to get all the equipment that we needed to get the sugar out of the plants. While working in the sugarcane land, I tried to find my love and I knew the consequences if master found me talking to a woman, I would be whipped if he found me even looking the them. I had worked a hard long day, getting many and many sugarcanes . I haven't eaten anything for a while master barely ever feeds us at all. Other slaves, when they eat they would talk about revolutions of slaves overcoming their masters and becoming free. After working several long hours in the hot fields, I just wanted to talk to one of the woman, I was nervous because I knew I could get punished for this. As I was walking to the woman, I saw a couple dead bodies of other slaves fainted and maybe they even are dead . Everyone saw this happen and came to see them and see what was wrong with them, now it was a good time to approach one of the woman. After helping up are fellow brothers, and talking to some of the woman we had a quick day after that. It felt like forever in the morning but once we had a nice small meal and helped out fellow brother recover from the fainting the day went by fast. I was laying down in my sleeping area and heard people screaming in the middle of the night, master didn't feed us food tonight. Master's orders are never to leave once he closes the door the hut. I left anyways once again knowing what master could do to me if I got caught. When I came out of the sleep area, I saw many things happen in front of my eyes. First I saw the woman being taken to a big hut along with several men including the master. Before I knew it master starting beating me with a big stick from a tree and next thing I knew I woke up almost a day later. I woke with master beating me over and over again with that same stick yelling and hitting me. He was very upset that I left my sleeping area and he almost beat me to death. After I recovered, master made me go to work on the sugarcane fields again and to start working harder. When I started to work again I couldn't find most of the woman that used to work on the field with me. I wondered where they could possibly be because master always makes them work. I overheard a bunch of my fellow brothers upset how master could take away our woman from us and not let us even talk to them. Next morning I woke up, it felt like any other ordinary day and I heard the screams and new that it was time to work again. This time all the lovely ladies where in the fields and I just wanted to talk to them one last time before master took them away for good. So I started to talk to them and masters workers saw me and the woman talk and master was not happy. He came out again to find me and this time I don't think I can get out of it, this time he had a whip. My stomach dropped and my legs started to shake because I knew that he wasn't going to be nice like last time and not kill me. Him and his workers tied me up and made my body stationary. I couldn't move, master had me pinned down and he started to whip me. Over and over, I tried not to make a sound so maybe he would stop. He kept whipping me, I couldn't even feel it anymore my body was shaking though and the blood from my back fell down my legs. He hit my with the whip in my face, my eye feel out of place I knew it was going to be the end soon. After a while I couldn't feel anything, everything starting feeling slow and my body started to sink into the earth. Now all I see is blackness.
By: Andres Acosta & James McNair
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