Slave+2+-+failed+to+escape

My name is Martin Barker. I have been a slave for a long time. I've been separated from my family and haven't seen my wife and my children for almost 10 years now. I had to escape and I did. [|Harriet Tubman] man an [|underground railroad] and most of us got to escape. The smell of freedom was great. Nonetheless, my freedom didn't last that long. I didn't even get to see my family.

What I don't understand is slavery. Why can't the whites do the work and hard labor by themselves? I've been tortured enough and I need to get out of this place. Being caught from running away was not the best feeling. Wherever you go, you see the whites staring at you. At first I thought it was because of my color, my race. It wasn't though. Later on I saw posters stuck on posts and walls about slaves missing; I see a poster of me.

I needed to run away once again. But it was already too late. It's unfair how I'm one of the unlucky African-Americans who got captured once again. Going back to the house of the Whites, back to hard labor, back to being whipped and punished. All the scars from my back, my eye, and all over my body is from my master. I've been whipped, beat, and punished for no reason. It's back to the miserable life. I just hope my family escaped and are living a happy life...

I'm against the Fugitive Slave Law, what gives them rights to have control over us? I tell you, sooner or later, something worse will occur and the Whites will be sorry for the wrongdoings they have done not only to us but to the rest of the world.

cites: [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Escape_from_slavery] http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/SlaveLaw.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Law_of_1850