Corinne McGuire Reflector

I arrived in the white man's land and it has been horrible! I was seperated from Afi and dragged to a rice plantation to be my master's son's birthday present! The things we do are degrading and humiliating! When I first arrived I was sent along with a white slave girl about my age to work in the kitchen with Teenie and her little son, Tidbit. Polly, the white slave girl, and I are learning how to run the plantation smoothly and get the master's food on the table on time. We shuck corn and peel potatoes and even fetch eggs all day and it I'm lucky I can sleep all night. But sometimes Tidbit fetches me in the middle of the night for Clay... 

I'm thinking about home a lot and I miss my family and my village. I am so devastatingly heartbroken all the time. The only things that bring me joy are Teenie and sweet little Tidbit! I met Mrs. Derby too. She's such a lovely and kind woman stuck up in this awful place. The master tells her what to wear, what to eat, and who to talk to. She's trapped in her own home! She is pregnant and Teenie and I hope she gets a pretty little girl so she can have some company in that prison of a house.

Quote: Teenie: "Long as you remember, chile, it ain't ever gone." pg 109