Journal Entry 3

After I escaped to New York I published a book titled “Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper.” The emancipation impacted me a lot because if it wasn’t for the change I would still be in slavery or die from it.

Journal Entry 2

They day the emancipation was passed I was in the heat picking my daily cotton. I haven’t seen my master all day and when I finally seen him I was afraid. He slowly came out the house with a box full of papers and his reading glasses. He placed his glasses on and for the first time read are names off one by one and told us we were free. Since it was too good to be true I didn’t believe what was happening. When he called my name, I walked up slowly and caution with my head down. He looked me dead in the eyes and said “go on now; you niggers finally got what you wanted”. When he placed my papers in my hand I ran back to the bunkhouse packed my clothes and was on my way to a better place. Road to freedom I was marching down. As I slowly walked down the road I stopped and attempted to read, it stated “Dear Negros, the day has come where you were set free, in your mind this was the right thing to do but in mines and was the beginning of a new period. Hope you enjoy, President Lincoln.” It was beginning of a new time period.

Journal Entry 1

My name is Moses Roper unfortunate I was born a slave in Caswwell County, North Carolina. My master was my father also and my mother was just like the rest of us, a slave. After my father/master died me and my mother was sold to different slave owners. I was sent to Georgia, since it was hard for me to be sold due to the fact that I was half white and half black I was left no option but to be place in boarding house in Washington. First I started as a house, working as a doctor and tailor. But eventually I was sold again to a slave owner by the name of Gooch. I tried numerous times to escape due to the poor treatment and lack of food but each time I was caught and beaten bad. After I escaped I managed to find my mother but once again I was recaptured and given 200 whip lashes to the back. How bad I was treated, I never stop and let them break me down. When emancipation was passed, I was free.