• My name is Mana; I'm 16 years old and live in Alabama. My master treats me well sometimes. If I don't pick tabacco fast enough, he makes me work untill midnight as my punishment. I live in a big house with my friends. I sleep in a big bed, and as for my friends they sleep on the floor. One day when I was picking tabacco I heard some other slaves talking about escaping with Harriet Tubman and some other little kids were talking about this as well that wanted to be treated better since our master mistreets us.
    I was shocked about what I had heard so I decided to stay up all night when my masters guards went to sleep for awile. I fell asleap, but was woken up by some leaves crunching in the woods. I looked outside. It was the slaves that were talking about escaping. (The next Day) 15 cotton pickers were gone leaving me with more work. While I was working someone came up to me, and whispered.. "Do you want to escape?" I said yes. (The next day...)
    I ate a big breakfast, then sleapt in telling my master I had a bad cold and did not want to ruin his crops. Around midnight we escaped into the woods running from house to house from th guards whenever they followed us into the house we had to go into a crawlspace. We waited until they left and we moved on. Once we escaped I had a new life and did not get bossed around from my "boss" anymore (boss- master) After awile I got a new house and started living a happy life.
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