Harriet Tubman's Escape: A Fly on the Wall History
2 0 0 Hi'm Horace and this is my sister Maggie We've been Alies on the wall during important events in history CO C We watched countless people build the Great Wall of China AEDT We even saw men carve the faces on Mount Rushmore we saw Karl Benz build the first car ID One adventure we bel never forget was when we made a daring escape with Harriet Tubman in the mid
in the summer of 1848 we found ourselves near a farm in Bucktown Maryland It was a time when slavery was legal throughout the southern United States People could own other people slaves were forced to work without pay and often under terrible conditions we saw a group of slaves working in the field An angry looking man took a worker aside He beat him and told him to work harder A He I don't like They can't Their ancestors were taken from their homes in Africa thousands of miles away a d I why don't the slaves just leave They're like prisoners They have no money or way to escape Slavery in the United States began in 1619 People from Africa were first brought to what is now the state of Virginia There they were enslaved Those who do try to escape face being beaten or even
The farm was the Brodess plantation It was run by a man named EAward Brodess Most of the slaves looked skinny like they didn't get enough to eat Maggie and I watched Mr Brodess take two slaves away from the group They were unhappy where they were but they were even more unhappy to be taken away They were going to be sold to another
keeping families together isn't super important to slave owners in That boy and girl ave teenagers And they are treated like property They just want the farm work to get done what about their families Because slaves were considered property most slave owners didn t keep track of birthdays or family members Families were often broken apart to work on other
