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Summary: The American Civil War

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(1)The year is 1861 the civil war has just begun between the South and the North. We have been trying to figure out a way to escape the South to be free in the north,so we have to try the underground ailroad but we don’t know the way to get there.(2)But today we have heard of a song called “The Drinking Gourd”.The song supposedly tells the route to the Underground Railroad until I heard a woman singing. “The drinking gourd,the drinking gourd,”the woman kept singing. I had no idea what to do to remember what she sang so I kept singing the song very quietly. “The drinking gourd,the drinking gourd,”I sang over and over again. (1)A man named Denmark Vesey organized a huge slave uprising him and many slaves were killed.I have been waiting for …show more content…

I am not able to fall asleep since I am afraid that someone will find me and kill me with the dogs.I am sitting in the trap door room I hear footsteps. I have no idea what is going on until I hear the door open,and the woman starts screaming at them and they just tell her to shut her mouth and then they push her out of the way.I have never felt this much terror since back at the farm.Luckily I hid far enough back for them not to see me.The next night I was back on the underground railroad.I have been walking for hours I finally came to the next house.I was sleeping in the crawl space until I heard voices.I didn’t know what was going on.I sat there waiting,doing nothing but sitting in quiet.Until they came they got me, and I didn’t know what to do I couldn’t fight back, or the dogs would have ripped me apart.And I heard they beat or even kill the people they find that used the underground

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