monologue

Amiyr Ahmad


I was sitting on my bed getting ready to go to sleep when my sister touched me and my brother and said we're going to go today. Next thing I remember was going out the door of the house and sprinting towards the tree line, in the distance I heard dogs barking and someone yelling the slaves are running so we quickly got to the river where we jumped in so we could lose the scent and the dogs wouldn't be able to chase us we swim through the water and got out I was not sure how far we went but it felt like years that we were walking and running but soon right next to the river we got to a house it was one of mourning all night my sister ran up to the door and not we were scared because we thought that we were going to get caught but when the door opened my sister said we're here and we all were in.


We went down into the basement there had been prepared place for us to sleep and food soon later the next night our sister ran off again she said I will be back and seem like days and days she had not come back but very soon she appear again she came back with more people we were amazed then she got even more people and kept going back and forth until we get there were multiple houses slaves I remember feeling fear of the police coming or slave owners coming and finding us in the basement I always thought of myself as brave Fila sport but in this moment I felt the most fear I have ever felt the fear of being killed in the fear that if we run we may never find another place to stay soon later oh sister took us again and this time she brought the others with us currently you're in Pennsylvania but then rent to British North America where there was little to no slavery we got there and we found freedom.


My name is Ben Ross Harriet Tubman's brother.

I am. Free African American man.