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Show LITTLE BENNY'S Notebook By LEE PAPE V Ei SLAVES. Poforo all men was created equal, some I of them was created unequal, being tho Mia VC9. v si.iv.' had to do everything his master ordered him. weather he felt like it or not, wlch he g. nrelly dldcnt and If h" sed, "Hay. wat.s you think I am. a slave"" his master would say, "Sure you are " VV Ich he was. Slaves used to pick cotton In cotton fields, and If they dldent pick It ahout I i a mile a minnlt a overseer with boots on j cracked 'em with a big wipp. und every time the., uhjocted they got anothtr krack for acting as if they was born cqusI. and the result was they dldent ub-Ject. ub-Ject. If slaes had children. th- hildrvn grew tip to be slaves Jest because they was slaves children, and If they had chlldicn their children grew up to bo I slaves because they was slaves children too. This proves that meny of our trub-blos trub-blos is Jest a matter of habit, i 2 wlte men could tawk back to each I other on ocrount of being qual. and I j i slaves could tnwk h.-iek to each other, on account of them being equal too but ir j a slave wunted to tawk back to a wlte man, the ncerest he could come to it was to tawk back to another slave After a wile the slaves started to educate ed-ucate themselves on account of wunting. to see wat it felt like to know how to reed and write, and one day they shv ' In the papers that they had all bin e: free, so they all stopped work nd started j to rejoice. This proves that nuthing can take the place of education |