Harriet was born a slave in 1813. At that time, slaves were not allowed to marry with somebody, earn money...NO freedom. They can't even live their family... Moreover, Harriet's relations were killed by their owner because of strict phisical punishment. She thought she would die many times because dead is much better than living as a slave.
And also, owner can cell slaves to another people, so also Harriet was changed to many houses.
First her owner was terrible. When Harriet got lover and introduced to them, they didn't allowed to meet Harriet's lover and call "niggar"or "black puppies".
Second owner's name was Mr&Mrs Flint. When Harriet met them, they were nice to Harriet. However, Mr.Flint started to whisper obscenities in Harriet's ear. Mr. Flint said "If you tell this to my wife, I'm gonna kill you." to Harriet. She had tried to ignore his obscenities as much as she could. One day, Mrs.Flint forced to say everything about Mr.Flint to Harriet. She said everything. Mrs.Flint cried but not for Harriet;for herself.
Mr.Flint was so upset. He was trying to kill Harriet. However, because of her bravery, she talked and resisted violently.
So far, I found a lot of difficult vocabularies, but all of those are useful and interesting vocabularies.
Anyway, I can't believe that slaves couldn't even marry or meet to lover, and owners sold slaves to somebody even they're same humans! I don't understand what is the difference...even though skin color is different, we're same humans. have emotions, have hearts. Nobody can sell or say something each other..
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When we look at history, we can see that different people in different societies have decided who was human and who was not, for some very strange reasons -- skin color, language, religion, or nationality, for example. It's hard to believe, but it is very true.
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