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I woke up and I’m in complete shock. I try to turn around and I’m suddenly on another’s body. I have several questions to ask. Where am I? Why am I here? What did I do to deserve this? I kept my questions to myself until another person started to talk to me. She explained that we are slaves, being sent to America. I look down and I’m chained to a total stranger. I look around and I see people dying, giving birth next to corpses. It’s smells horrible and no one can stand up straight because I’m sure the ceiling is about 4ft tall.

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I was playing in my backyard when I heard my neighbors scream run! I took a peek to see what was happening when I saw five white men holding on to her. I didn’t know what to do but run to my dad but it was too late they saw me. The men chased me to the ground and pulled me into their boat. I couldn’t scream or move cause I was tied up. I could sense that I was far from home.
-Lucya Zhang

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I am so terrified not knowing where I am going. I am so terrified not wanting to be in a dark place. It’s really dark at night and can’t see someone. I’m hurt knowing I’m in danger. I am terrified and afraid

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I woke up today with ships in my town. The people come down grab many people and shove them up on the ship. I started to run when suddenly I felt a grab on my collar. The next thing I see is darkness. I felt terrified, more I don’t know where I am, where’s my family, my home, my life. When I woke up I felt crammed.
- Nikki Dong

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I woke up and I’m in so much fright. I try turning aro7nd and I was on another’s body

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I was on a ship with all my people, being chained together without moving or even having any space. We all had to be with the ones that were dead some of my peers were afraid but rather die then be slaved, some got sick and tired of not moving or even standing up. And but what will happen to me next with all the people dying and getting sick what will happen to me.
~Jacqueline Guevara

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I was taken away from my family to be an American slave. I was cramped inside a ship. So many people were dying because of diseases from being cramped together. Why did I have to become a slave? I don’t want to die because of the diseases.

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I was kidnapped, captured away from my family and I feel the most of depressed. I’m in a boat squished with many people

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I woke up and I’m in complete shock. I can only look up, when I try to turn I sudden feel my body on another’s. The fright is starting to come on. Where am I? Why am I here? What did I do to deserve this? Where am I even going at this point

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I was inside of a large ship crammed and chained next to many other people screaming their cries for help, it smelled horrible . It seemed like we were all divided by gender, they were very young men on the other side also crying and screaming for help. I was just hoping I would be able to survive, I look next to me and there was a man still chained up dead, i think he died from a disease of some sort. Thean i later realized there are many people dead all around me.

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I can’t believe this is happening, why is this happening to me. There’s so many people, I’m on the bottom of the ship with everyone. It’s so dark and there’s men with guns pointing at me. I’ve never been so confused, what’s going to happen and where am I going to end up?
~Fernanda Flores

-Fernanda Flores

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I was taken away and forced to go to America to be a slave. We are crammed in this ship and it feels like we have been her for years. We are packed so tightly that a disease is spreading around our ship and all you hear is people around me dying. We have been beaten and treated terribly. We have tried to escape but that just made things worse. The ceilings are only 4 feet high and we can’t move at all. People are becoming blind. Even the captain! Life is terrible on this slave ship.

~Catalina

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I was taken away from my family to be a slave. I wa

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I would feel scared, nervous, and angry if I am a slaves because I would have to see all my own kind of get kill by diseases and English people. I had to sleep on the lower layer of the ship and plus the roof is really short so I couldn’t stand up and sometime I try to resist and try to escape I would be punish really painfully and when I try to sleep I am chained to other slaves plus I have to sleep in a warm and smelly spot. If we do something really bad or try to escape a second time we might taste death in a painful way like being thrown out of the ship chained and etc.

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I have been wipped beaten forced to take medicine and have gotten many dieasese we tried to kill members of the crew and take over the shopped but we didn’t succeed we were forced to shave our head and wear the clothes the ship wants us to wear we made a plan to kill all of the members of the crew and we succeeded we piloted the ship to land and hiked for days to find food and shelter
John Viggiani I

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I just woke up on some ship with probably hundreds of people. I’m scared, I don’t know what to do, and I don’t know where I am. Last thing that I remember was some weird looking people break into my home. I remember my mom, my dad and my brother. But right after that, I became unconscious then woke up here. I’m worried and I’m confused. Please someone help me, I’m dying!!
-Ramon Tuason

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I am on a ship with so many people who are dying. There are people who are coughing and being sick. They are being fed to the sharks. when will it be my turn?
Pratham kumar

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I’m scared I don’t know what is happening around me because someone took me from my home in the village and put a bag on my head. After a couple of days they finally removed the bag to see that I’m by the shoreline and some of my people are next to me. I think someone is going to buy me oh no I’m next up for auction. No someone bought me now someone put a bag on my head again.

Jimmy

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I would feel really scared and nervous and crazy

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Im so afraid, what are they going to do to me! Why are they doing this don’t they know this is bad!. I’m tied up I don’t know where they are taking me, I’ve been shackled to others , I’ve been beaten and and hurt. I can taste the salt water they throw on us, I can see only complete darkness, I can hear the screams of others, and I can smell the rotting body’s near me.
-Mia DaSilva

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I was on a ship with all my people being chained to one an other with no whre to move

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I’m in a ship with hundreds of people crammed together. Everyday someone is dying on the ship and it can be me next. I was kidnapped and taken from my family , I don’t even know if I can see them ever again. We are being wipped and beaten to take medicine, also we are held by our nose to shave our hair off. The only thing I can smell is the stench, and hear the screaming from people.
-Steven Zhang

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I am terrified i have been wiped beaten and forced to take medicine and i have gotten strange dieseases

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I was in my home town when suddenly out of no where I see these ships come towards us. I just stated to run away, until suddenly I feel a grab on my shirt and the next thing I see is darkness. I feel terrified and more I don’t know what’s happening. Where’s my family, my home, my life?

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I am so scared

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What happened to my parents?

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What is going to happen to me?!!!??!?!!?
What’s going on, where am I? “Your on a boat, being transported to a new world” said someone across from me. I could here yelling somewhere else on this boat. I heard the splash outside, I couldn’t see what it was, but it definitely wasn’t good. In a weak voice I said “Is ttthhat what is gggoing to happen to us?” “No, only the sick ones meet that fate”said the boy next to me. Everyone in this part of the boat turned their heads to see a group of armed people with guns walk into the door. One of them smelled awful, like he was a rotting corpse. Another person said “if I hear one more sound out of any of you, you’re being fed to the sharks.” I thought “oh no I’m going to die!!” I thought “why me what did I do to deserve this?” “Im gonna be working the rest of my life, separated from my family.”

Zachary Bohringer

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I was playing in my backyard when I heard my neighbors scream run! I took a peek to see what was happening when I saw five white men holding on to her. I didn’t know what to do but run to my dad but it was too late they saw me. The men chased me to the ground and

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Today is not any better than the others days, each day gets worse and worse. More captives dying by the minute. I cannot bear it much longer. All of us have little to no room to do anything but lay there being chained to others. Sometimes we are even chained to those who have died before us. There is even a disease that is going around causing blindness, which doesn’t make it any better. I cannot see but I can hear all of the screams of the other hostages whofeel  the same as me. Please get us out of here and quick before we all die- Meghan

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It’s terrifying not knowing where you are going. It’s terrifying being trapped somewhere you don’t want to be. I am tied somewhere really dark where

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I learned that slaves were kidnapped and taken away from their family which is horrible

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I am on a ship, with god knows how many people. Next to me, there is a man, he has measles. I don’t know where I’m going, where my family is, or if I can go sto the bathroom anytime soon. I see people being whipped beside me. Force fed to eat medicine. The man beside me, coughing horrendously, dying. I feel myself getting sick. For countless days I have been on this ship. Longing to get home, eat something made from my mother’s hands. I’m restless, could not sleep all the days I’ve been here. Shackled to the man next to me, I’m thinking, will this disease spread. The reason I could not sleep is because of the tremendously horrifying smell and the trauma I experienced watching men die. I want to die, I want to get rid of this torture. I’ve been wondering forever, where am I? Why are they taking me across the seas. I see people fighting off this cuffs, but they simply don’t understand. I’ve tried to get my self off, slip off of these shackles but I cannot. God save me, or let me die.

Garima Anand

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I wish this didn’t have to happen to me. I miss my family, I don’t even know if they were taken too, or if they’re safe. It smells horrible here, and I am tied together with dead, sick, and other people. The roof is so low I cannot stand, and if I try to move I get a lot of pain and so do the people around me. There are so many people here I can’t move either. I hate it here. It is not safe. I miss my beautiful hometown, where I didn’t have to worry if I do anything wrong. All I can hear is silence, otherwise there are the screams of people who try to escape. It is very uncomfortable here, I just wish I can go back to my hometown. -Melanie

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I am on the ship trapped with handcuffs in front of me and I can’t move my hands. Each day gets worse and worse and it’s not okay. Another kid around my age had loose handcuffs and slipped right out and tried to escape, but he got caught. A disease made so many people blind even the captain

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I can’t believe what happening

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African American slaves went through

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I was on the ship, the walls were probably only around 4 feet tall, it smelled horrible. There was a man next to me begging for help, he kept

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I am crammed on a ship and am terrified. I have been on this ship for what feels like forever and I miss my family and my normal life. I haven’t seen regular daylight in a month and people around me are getting so sick they are dropping dead and screaming with pain. I can feel them struggling to stay alive and I can feel them moving our shackles cuff by cuff. I have seen what happens to the ill. They are given so many pills they can barley even swallow them and they get wiped if they don’t swallow them. When I go to get my haircut he holds me by my nose and shaves my head. And when I get to eat I barley get anything. It’s a little bit of rice and that’s it. We have to urinate we’re the women wash there things. I am terrified to see what else could happen. Please help.

Peter Irish