Dear Diary, February 16, 1866
~The 13th Amenment to the United States Constitution has just recently be RATIFIED! This amenment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. WE R AL FRE!!!!!! We do truly hope this means we r al fre. I think this calls for a celebration,but maybe we should wait for things to change. We r fre so we must get paid to work. The colur of r skien doz not dfine us 4 who we truly r. I can now hve a job nd provide 4 my famly this changz my lyfe very biggly becuz I am now free. It haz ben one of my biggest dreems to b fre and me nd al my frienz are now able to get mony to make us live. We are all vury happy. We can start getting edducated too. We wil be smart nd able to du many things.
~ Zach
~The 13th Amenment to the United States Constitution has just recently be RATIFIED! This amenment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. WE R AL FRE!!!!!! We do truly hope this means we r al fre. I think this calls for a celebration,but maybe we should wait for things to change. We r fre so we must get paid to work. The colur of r skien doz not dfine us 4 who we truly r. I can now hve a job nd provide 4 my famly this changz my lyfe very biggly becuz I am now free. It haz ben one of my biggest dreems to b fre and me nd al my frienz are now able to get mony to make us live. We are all vury happy. We can start getting edducated too. We wil be smart nd able to du many things.
~ Zach
Dear Diary, December 9th 1868
~The 14th Amenment to the United States Constitution has now ben ratified. Al maals r now pratected by the law. Enyone who were born in the U. S. could now b a citizin of the United States. No matta whut they luk lyke. This meens that we now hav most the rights eny one else that lives in the United States haz. This changes my lyfe nd a lot of my frienzes too. We r looking to the fueture becuz we r starting to git more lyke everyone else. Me nd my famly r haape to start bng reconized az individuals living nd working in the same places as fello Americans. We r just lyke everyone else nd we r glad it is bginning to b noticed.
~Cayce
~The 14th Amenment to the United States Constitution has now ben ratified. Al maals r now pratected by the law. Enyone who were born in the U. S. could now b a citizin of the United States. No matta whut they luk lyke. This meens that we now hav most the rights eny one else that lives in the United States haz. This changes my lyfe nd a lot of my frienzes too. We r looking to the fueture becuz we r starting to git more lyke everyone else. Me nd my famly r haape to start bng reconized az individuals living nd working in the same places as fello Americans. We r just lyke everyone else nd we r glad it is bginning to b noticed.
~Cayce
Dear Diary, April 23rd 1873
~A cuple yearz the 15th Amenment to the United State's Constitution was ratified. Al Maal Africaans can now vote. The constitution iz the highist law in the United States, but this dozn't stop the Southernerz to be rude to us and make it hardly imposible 4 Africaans to vote. Du they not care that the Constitution sayz we can. Becuz they don't lyke us doez not giv them the right to be butholes to us and not let us have our rights that the Constitution givs to us. Even tho they r being mean it is still preety cewl that we hav the right to vote because its just so cewl that we can be represented by peeple in Congress and even by the President. ~Damon |