Kagne
Happy, playing with my brothers and sisters.
Content.
Until one day my father owed a debt.
I was pawned.
Sent to Lomboko ,
it was a long and hard journey but I made it.
I really didn’t like it there.
They were cruel to us and it was painful.
There is only one word to describe what it was like,
Torture.
Finally we were put on a ship.
I thought it would be better.
It was worse.
Then another ship. The Amistad.
It was long,
it was hard,
the ziz-zags of the Amistad.
We were kept in a jail.
Until one day our case went to the United States Supreme Court.
That faithful day our lawyer, John Quince Adams, argued
and argued for us until we
Won.
We were going home.