My Slave Diary Entry 5

working in the cotton field

working in the house

Dear Diary,

  OMG!!! Today was a very tiring day. In the early morning about 4 am(are you serious that the sun rises early?!?), my master woke me up and forced to work in the cotton field. Before going in the field, my owner gave me a cold bacon! I can't eat it! I'm a Muslim, but I have no choice. After eating, I straight away go to the field. In the field under the hot blazing sun, I worked and worked and I don't have a break. While working, my neighbor was crying. She told me that his master bit her and used a knife to cut off her ear. It was terrible and I started to worry that my master might do this to me. She also told me that her master will whip her if she didn't work hard enough. Slaves will be branded, stabbed, tarred and feathered(meaning: smeared with tar and then covered with feathers as a punishment), burned, shackled, tortured, maimed, crippled, mutilated and castrated. At 3pm, my master's wife called me in and I started to house work, like mopping the floor. At least this is better than working outside. My owner's wife is kind to me that I could worked while the fan is on. My master is a person who thinks that I'm a dog! That's really mean, I have feelings just like the White people. My master went to work until the evening. 

  When my master came back from work, he chased me out of the house and forced to work in the coffee field. I have to worked on 2 fields each day: the coffee field and the cotton field. After 6 hours working in the field, my master allowed me to continue working in the house. I washed the dishes, mopped the floor and cleaning the room. At 12am, my master sent me to bed. It was really a hard work. Now, I need to sleep. Tomorrow is another hard day.