Slave Interview Essay

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This is the interview of a man who uses to be a slave in Jamaica who lives in my hometown of Boynton Beach Florida. I am currently friends with and have been friends for a while. He goes by the name of Marcus gaskin and he now lives in a small community called old Boynton not too far from my neighborhood. He is around the age of 95 and lives in a rundown house with really bad landscaping. He has worked for some local townsfolk doing some grounds keeping and gardening since he was freed when he was 20. He has worked for some nearby townsfolk doing a few grounds keeping and planting since he was liberated when he was 20. Anyhow generally Marcus minds his own business. He has no wife and no youngsters. He is just 5 foot 4 and may weigh around…show more content…
I also looked forward to the day I would be set free or when I could escape. How did you hear you were freed? one day, some white and black people came to our plantation and and talked to the masta. He lined us up and told us we were just as free as the masta was . Didn't really know what he meant. What was life like then? Well, I hads me a wife. She had a son one night. They died both the same night. That wouldn't happened if I wasn't freed. My messa would have made sure she was right taken care of. Baby slaves was a "vestment" to him. But free, no sir. No help. None for me. None for my baby and wife. I work my field here, and I work for some people in town, taken care of their gardens. I eats what I grow and what I catch.. Aint no bell telling me to work and none telling me there is food to eat. Sho do miss that bell. Did they feed you well? When the Messa was being kind. We ate some real good most those days. But them days he wasn't, we hunted our own. Turkey if God was blessing us, skunk if he wasn't. And now? Now I eats me fish. Some corn cakes and collard greens, just like when I was being raised. Never gonna get past all that corn I

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