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   There was once a young girl who was a slave. 

Being born into slavery, she never knew anything but 

the life of a slave while she lived in Virginia. From the 

day she was old enough to work, she was put in the 

field to pick cotton. Her master was a large white 

man who was very cruel.

   The girl had seen things that no young 

girl should ever see. She saw her father 

killed on the plantation when she was 

only seven. She saw slaves whipped 

almost every day. But she was a smart 

girl. 

   She always obeyed and worked her hardest, 

knowing the gruesome consequences if not. 

Even though she hated living like she did, she 

knew that she could make it easier by doing 

what she was told. 

   One day, her friend, who was a young girl 

just like her, was called up to the house. 

Later, the girl learned that she had been 

moved from a field worker to become a house 

maid. The girl had always wished to be a 

house maid, where she could be out of the 

scorching sun and the labor was less intense. 

   Almost as if her master had read her mind, he 

granted her wish only weeks later. When the girl 

ran inside the house with a smile, anxious to see 

her friend after being separated from her for 

weeks, she wasn’t there. When she asked the 

master’s wife where she was, the woman replied 

that she had been sold after she was rendered 

useless in the field and the kitchen. 

   The girl wept for her friend, praying 

that she had been sold into a better home 

and was being treated better. She worked 

for months in the house, but the chores 

and treatment proved to be no better than 

that in the field. 

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