chapter 1
1862
It was a dark gloomy night. and I was shaving my hair off so no one would know I was a girl. They all thought i was a boy. They thought I was the son of a tailor . I really was the child of a tailor except I was a girl and again no one knew it. Then the alarm sounded and that meant that there was a ship there that was not one of us. An illegal slave ship. Slave ships had been outlawed since I was a little girl. We had to stop the slave ships in their tracks and save all the slaves and kill all the people that took the slaves from their homes. That particular ship had 6 hundred slaves on it. We rushed into action and stopped the slave ship. When we boarded I saw a horrifying sight. All the slaves aboard that ship were starving and in pajamas. Boys in blue and girls in pink. They were in bad circumstances. They were so skinny I could see their ribcages right through their pajamas. I was grossed out! I almost passed out. But I was strong. Kind of. I threw up when no one was looking. Luckily I made no sound when I tossed my lunch. Then I turned around to my mates
who still were not looking and looked to where they were tossing a dead man into the sea. I tossed my lunch. Again! This time some of my crew did too. When we stopped throwing up we stopped the people that took the slaves from their home i got cut badly with their cat of 9 tails and was bleeding a lot. I saw fear in there eyes and it made me want to cry. 'no' i thought to myself 'i can't let the job affect me'