Bye for now!

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This is my Amistad Poetry. This goes with Margru. It is from Margru’s point of view.

Here is a translation.

My home,

I feel everyone hug me that’s in my family,

I think of my loving friends,

I remember my memories of home,

I can smell all the food we had there,

I can see us play all the games we played,

I hear us screaming when we had all the fun we had,

I think up a storm of dreams that I had in my own bed,

But now I am gone,

But I will not stop thinking and dreaming of my home,

Because I will be back some day,

I will live this all over again,

I will always think and dream of my home.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Margru is a girl that lived in Meneland West Africa. When she was about 12 she was traded by her father to white men for food. The white men only wanted her because they could sell her to other white men and they would just get the money for her.

She was sent on a ship to Cuba where she was sold to another white man with three other children named Cinque (he was the boy) and two girls named Kagne and Teme. But since they were not aloud to take slaves from Africa the white man used fake passports that said they were from Cuba. Then the white man took them on another boat and they all got a banana and some water for food.

Once they were out of the bay they heard them talking and they thought they were going to eat them. So Cinque decided to capture the white me on the boat with them. The four kids were chained up so they had to get out of them so Cinque found a large nail sticking up out of the floor and he picked the lock with the nail.

When they got out of the chains Cinque said that he was going to lock the white men up in the chains and sail the ship that they were on back to Meneland West Africa where they were from and where they lived with there family.

So Cinque did exactly that but he did not get very far from where they where they were when a boat full of Spaniards came up to there boat and recaptured them and took the chains off the white men and put the chains on them.

The Spaniards took them into many different courts and jails. They had to prove that they were innocent because it was illegal to take slaves from Africa.

Finally one day they proved that they were innocent and they could go home but they did not have enough money to get a ship to take them home but finally they had enough money to take them home so they did go home in November, 1841.

They were home but Margru went to Orblin College in Ohio. Then she became a schoolteacher in Africa and got married.

The End

I thought that the part where they cannot get enough money to go home after they won the court case was kind of sad because they won and now they cannot get home and there all happy because they won the court case but when they got enough money to go home was happy. I think it is a good story and I really liked it.

I also think when Cinque found the nail and he picked the lock on the chains was smart to. Also when they put the chains on the white men and locked them up was smart.

I thought that when Margru’s father was smart when he traded her to the white men because he knew that you could not take slaves from Africa. So he knew he would get her back some day. But also he was smart because they really needed the money so they could buy food because they were very poor so they needed the food or else they would starve to death and die.

This is a true fact about Margru her real name is Sarah Margru Kinson. Also Margru means black snake.

I think that this story is kind of sad don’t you? But this is a very good story based on Sarah Margru Kinson’s life and 90% of this information is true. It was written by Monica Dinger who is my teacher.

If you want to learn more about this you can look up Sarah Margru Kinson at an Internet website like yahoo. Please read more about her if your interested. Thanks!

By for now!