Unit 5: Genre Study 2 – Historical Fiction

I tied the horse out front, waited for my insides to quit shaking, then stepped onto the stoop.

Twaren't but the other day I was eavesdropping and heard her tell Pa that it's a miracle I waren't born in slavery 'cause I'm way too fra-gile to have survived even a minute of it.

We hear many wonderful things about the Negro settlement there and are grateful that God in his infinite mercy and wisdom has seen fit to provide you and yours a refuge.

Much to our horror, to set an example and in retaliation for the gold he claims John stole, Mr. Tillman exacted a punishment so severe that due to the rigors of the march home, John's body could not endure and he went to the loving arms of our Savior on the seventh day of the fifth month in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

Much to our horror, to set an example and in retaliation for the gold he claims John stole, Mr. Tillman exacted a punishment so severe that due to the rigors of the march home, John's body could not endure and he went to the loving arms of our Savior on the seventh day of the fifth month in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

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Undaunted by the Driver's whip, an old man named Toby gives the laboring slaves the fortitude—and the magic—to lift themselves off the ground and leave.

Undaunted by the Driver's whip, an old man named Toby gives the laboring slaves the fortitude—and the magic—to lift themselves off the ground and leave.