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Hi! It’s me again. Here’s what this post is about. Two posts ago, in An Example of Slavery; Sarah Margru Kinson, I talked a lot about the Amistad.  Remember Cinque?  And Mangulu?  Well, now I’ve written a poem about it.  It is from Mangulu’s point of view, but in the poem she is called Margru, because that name is more common.  Anyway, it tells about her story in general.  So here it is:

Note: The words may have been hard to read.  In case you didn’t understand, the first paragraph is about Mangulu being born in Mendeland in western Africa.  Her father trades her away and she ends up on a ship to America.  Cinque finds a nail and sets the capives free, capturing the slave-traders in the process.  The ship sets sail towards Africa, but the Spanish turn the ship around during the night and sail to America.  Eventually the Spaniards reach the USA and are seen.  Other slave-traders rush onto the ship and recapture the Mende (”Mende” is the name of the tribe that Cinque and Mangulu are from).  The Mende go through many trials and one in the Supreme Court before they are finally freed.  But they can’t go back to Africa if they can’t pay for the ship (I know this sounds unfair; they didn’t pay for going to America, nor did they want to.  That was life in those days.  This sounds even more unfair, but they were very, very, very, very, (etc.) lucky to not have been made slaves at all).  That pretty much wraps up the poem.  As you can see on line seven of the text of this post (not including the poem), it said the word “Note” (which obviously meant that there was a note).  I just want to tell you that the note is long over.  Oops!  I said I just would tell you that.  Which means I can’t tell you anything else, so I want to tell you one last thing.  Bye!