Thursday, January 5, 2017

RAFT #1

Dear President Fillmore,

I am Ann a slave living in Californa. I traveled the Oregon Trail in search of gold and a new life. I believe that slavery should not be allowed to expand west because it would upset the balance between free states and slave states. Overall slavery is wrong and unfair we should not be owned like animals, but have the chance to earn our freedom at the very least. My people have been through so much pain and suffering and we deserve a chance. We should have a shot at a better life, a hope one day not to be treated by dirt. Every day we are looked upon as though we are inhuman but I assure you we are and we need our voices heard. I am speaking for my people who had every human right taken away from them, we need justice, we need a shot at freedom!

Sincerely,

Ann

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