c17jl1 » forced imigration

The Amistad

c17jl1 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:03:26 +0000

This is a poem about slavery that I wrote myself. I based it on poems that were written Elizabeth Alexander. I wrote several drafts before my final copy.

Historical Fiction Books

c17jl1 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:57:20 +0000

At the Dalton School Monica Edinger’s 4th class read works of historical fiction. I thought that my book, The Captive was a good work of historical fiction because it had real objects from that time a flute carved from wood and a gold weight. It also has real people such as Paul Cuffe. It also has real places like Sierra Leone. It includes stuff like the Ashanti empire, dialogue that helps make the story a bit more interesting. It tells a story of what it would be like to be a slave.

Sarah Margru Kinson

c17jl1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:53:19 +0000

The story of Sarah Margru Kinson by Monica Edinger is an amazing story of a girl taken into slavery. She came to America on the Amistad. I felt that it was sad and wrong to take people away from there home just for them to work for you. They were mistreated and illegally captured. I thought that it must have been strange seeing all these white people. It was like a movie when they went for their daily exerise in the New Heaven Green. I feel like I would have been really scared if I had all these strange people looking at me. I think that Sarah Margru Kinson was very brave.