Mara Scribner
Preface-Part II
Journal

Looking at the title I expected this piece of literature is about slavery, which I later found to be correct after reading the preface. After reading the preface, I assume this story is a success story of a husband and a wife making a run for freedom. They are humans and deserve the rights any other human being should get, and they understand this. They believe their freedom is worth the danger of running away and possibly risking their lives.
I am especially angered to know that the wife is nearly white and she is treated just as poorly as the black slaves, maybe even treated worse. One would think, since she is often mistaken as a daughter of the white tyrant family, that she would have attempted to escape earlier in her lifetime. I believe the reason she didn’t was because she had no one to make the journey with.
I was sickened to read the portion of the story that spoke of the white children being openly sold into slavery by their knowing parents. I find it almost as sick and disturbing as parents that murder their own children. It is also quite strange to me that it took a Supreme Court hearing to free the noticeably white girl from slavery when areas of her body untouched by sun were clearly pale. If I was in that same situation as that girl I would have fought my whole life for my justice and freedom.
I feel sorry for the people of the southern states because they seem so hypocritical and silly when you compare their actions to their morals. Most of the civilians of the southern states were extremely Christian and had a strong faith in God. They believed in forgiveness and the wrath of God, however, they sinned everyday by owning slaves. They trampled on others and ran others’ lives, which is obviously against Christian beliefs. “I must leave them in the hands of an all-wise and just God, who will, in his own good time, and in his own way, avenge the wrongs of his oppressed people” (Craft 10). I don’t see how the religious slave owners did not see the wrong in their actions. How did they not know they would be eventually punished by their wrathful God? It is a mystery to me.
The text, as it seems thus far, was obviously written to inform the public of a man and wife’s journey for freedom away from their oppressing slave-owners. I feel that it was also written to show the importance of living a free life. For those of us born free, we should not take it for granted, but be thankful for it each and every day. This piece was obviously written to be a non-fiction piece. I also see it as a sort of autobiography, even though it only tells of one certain journey in a man’s life. The pieces I have read from this sort of genre have been quite dull, however, I believe if the piece is written about an interesting topic it could be fun to read.