The past two days in class we have been talking about slavery. Yesterday, we focused on two actual accounts of slavery; one being from a slave girl, and the other from Olaudah Equiano. The account of the girl is much nicer than Olaudah's story. The girl was a slave, but her master was kind, and her father was in relation to her. He knew where she was, and how she was doing. Olaudah was a child soldier, and then take onto a slave ship and later sold as a slave. He was treated very poorly; he was beaten, forced to eat, and chained together with other slaves. He could not escape for fear of surviving and having a far worse punishment than death. Today in class, we focused on supporters and opponents of slavery. The supporters were both government officials from the south that had some degree of education. The opponents of slavery were poor, not formally educated, and did not hold government positions. They were from middle-east to northern states.

My goal is to stretch at least once a day.