A Slave's Life
My name is Otu which means the one in Igbo. I live on a plantation in Texas.
I was born a slave, I was taken away from my parents at three. And the white
men put me to labor farming, cutting wood, and digging wells. Then my master
died and his son took the slaves over and the plantation. But I don't plan on
staying long So the next night when the big house lights went off I waited an
hour for everybody to fall asleep. Then I slipped out of bed and went outside
and ran to the woods and didn't stop running till I didn't know where I was
going. So, I looked at a tree for moss until I found one. I learned from my pa
that moss usually grows on the north side of the tree. Then I started going
north.
