Question by Spencer: What was it like being a teenage slave during the Civil War?
For History i have to write a 2 paragraph “Journal Entry”, written as if you were a teenager in the south during the civil war. I decided to do it from a teenage slave’s prospective. So i need some information on what it was like to be a teenage slave in the south during the civil war. Thank you :)

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Answer by Marc-phillip Miller
I don’t have an answer, except to say the obvious: it’s was probably pretty rotten because you had no rights. Even the choice of who to marry or have children with, was, in many (but not all) cases, made by the slave-owner.

But I have to add this: every school-oriented question I see on YA is about how some group or other was oppressed or victimized. Everyone is writing about slavery, racism, antisemitism, etc. Is that all you guys learn about?

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