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Diary of a slave 1/13/14 Bernard Van Loon Day 1: I’ve just been taken away from my home, the place I have lived for a very long time, as long as I remember. I was taken with some of my friends and even some people from my family onto a large, smelly, wooden ship. I was quickly ushered into the holdings of this ship and chained to one of the support beams; luckily I was one of the first people inside of the ship and I the most room. Day 8: it’s been a week that I have been on this horrid ship, there is blood and feces everywhere, I can barely stand the stench and I don’t think I will ever forget it. Many of my friends are sick and some of the other slaves have been taken…show more content…
Day 120: One of my companions fell asleep today, forever. Day 130: After near a month of being here I have concluded that this is hell, what else could it be? My opinions have changed toward the owner of this plantation, he seemed nice but has already tortured my companions and even makes us whip our own people, there is nothing else crueler than this. Why can’t they see it? I just cannot understand. Day 200: I have survived so far, the only reason I am writing today is to talk about the new form of punishment, it is a treadmill where you must walk or you will be crushed. It is a circular water wheel which turns, the faster we walk the faster it goes, but even if we walk slowly you can mistime and get hurt. Day 1567: I think this is my final day, our plantation has had a sickness going around it that kills many and I fear I have it, if I do it will finally end this hell, I should have ended it earlier but I couldn’t make myself do it, I’ve seen what they did to people who only forgot something minor, they had their foot cut in half or were castrated, I don’t know what they would do to me if I tried to take my life away, maybe I was lucky they would have done it, but then again they burnt some of my friends yesterday for trying to run, so maybe this is the best way to go. Yes, I think it

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