• dear diary , june 16th 1806
    The southern air smells sweeterthis year. I think its the new cotton crop. Dady promised to sho me it this year. I'm really excited. I would've seen it earlier but i've always had bad health I'm probably going to die before i see the cotton.
    There are new slaves this year too; Joseph and Elizabeth. there both going by nick names; Joey and liz. we also have a new adition to our workers ; baltherzar. hes different than the others.he skulks around and hardly talks to anyone. he's intersting in that way.
    Every time i look out the window and watch the slaves. For some weird reason he is always looking into me as if trying to see threw my soul. He's atractive , i'll give him that,but he's frightening at the same time . He's only here as an aprentis so he is not much compared to those rich gentlemen my dad keeps talking about. All i see in those men is that they will hurt me and i wont be able to handle living with them,ever.
    The maids have been gosiping more and more theese days. not about the other slaves but the ret of the town. some peeole have found dead animals. others slaves have gone missing. And the thing is their owners were nice people, they disapeared too. I'm not worried about being next to disapear, but watching everyone go first scares me.
    Your owner ,
    sally