Jessies essay about a slave's story

*The students read an article that told about a slave who lived long ago named Jeffrey Brace. He was captured in Africa and brought to America. He eventually wrote a book about his experiences as a slave. The students discussed why historical books like this are important to us now.

My name is Jessie. I live in a small town in Alaska. In school we learned about slavery. We read Henry’s Freedom Box and Harriet Tubman. I think stories like Jeffrey Brace’s are important because they teach us what life was like for a captured slave.

Jeffrey Brace was a slave. He was from Africa in a boat. They made him go to America. He did not want to be a slave. It was a bad life.

We don’t want bad things like that to happen again. It helps us know how people felt. They were probably very sad and very mad.