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Story Summary: Tyron's Fight For Freedom
“Tyron, get back,” my owner yelled
In the dark town of the 1855 a young boy named Tyron was a slave. His plan is to get to one of 17 free state (4)with his family. Tyron was owned by the meanest slave owner in town. All he did was yell and scream. His family wasn’t, they were owed by a nice lady in a little house by her farm. That is where his wife and two kids are and they plow and seed her farm and they are treated well unlike me. This is a story on how Tryon and his family try to get free and save the rest of their town’s people and never look back.
The fields get hotter as the days gets longer, and working is not what I want to be doing. My slave owner can do whatever he wants to do with me (3). The United States is split up into groups free and slave (1) and it is hard being a slave it is terrible.(1) All I do is work for my owner, as he makes it harder. This is it I am going to get my family and I free, there are many different route of the Underground Railroad.(3)I am in eastern shore of Maryland which is one of …show more content…
Before we go any further, we are going to stay at a black lady’s house tonight, and she is wanting us to feel like we’re home and for us to stay awhile. On the way you can stay with people to get freshened up and ready to go again.(4) She had the right pattern quilt outside saying that she was good.(3) She told us she will cook and clean whatever we need that is really nice because we had to do that forever. We want to make it to new york tomorrow, and it is looking good. Mrs williams made us food to take on the road and it is coming in handy. The resources were limited on the road.(2)all we have to eat is berries and apples (2) and that is it. It is hard but we are not stopping now we have come to far to stop. Only 1 mile left and it is close. We have two more big hills and we will be there i can't wait. The first gilps is
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