I was born a slave in Fauquier County, Virginia. When he was fourteen years old, my master moved to Mason County, Kentucky. Befriended by his master's wife, I became a well-treated house slave. However, after attending a prayer-meetingI was so badly flogged he decided to run away. I was free for nine weeks but I was captured and received 107 strokes of the whip.
the experiences that I experience was that whenIwas a child or younger I lived in huts that were built of rough logs, males and females were eating, sleeping and living promiscuously in the same room. when I was in my slave master's home my mother was baking short cake, when my cousin came in, my mother gave us a peice of the cake and when i was done my cousin was teasing me and when i took it and ate it, my cousin was droped to the floor and started to cry and thats when i received the first "striking impression," upon my back, that i had done wrong.
Another experience is when One morning, when i was peeping over my mistress' sister that was engaged in writing a letter, i thought to myself, what pretty marks she was making, and wondered if I could not do the same; just as this idea came into my head she arose from the table and went to breakfast, as soon as she was out of sight, i seated myself, took the pen and finished with strange characters on the line that she had left half finished, and kept on to the line below, leaving off on that just where she had stopped on the line above.when i was viewing my work and thinking that it looked better and more distinct than the other, a lady, who, on seeing what i had done and began to beat me most unmercifully,and she continued laying on the lash with all her strength until his back was severely cut.
this explains how bad i was all beat up and how i did not like how he was treated during this time.
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