This person proved to be an honest and God-loving individual who is actually concerned about my well-being and the well-being of other slaves. He brought me a pair of glasses and a book called "Uncle's Tom Cabin" yesterday. I could never understand why many white people in the South can't abandon slavery in spite of the fact that they know that it's wrong, but I am satisfied knowing that they treat their slaves well. I could not stop reading the book ever since I laid eyes on it. I have been awake for almost two days now and I am infuriated with the institution of slavery in general, even with the fact that I did not experience the suffering it provoked from a first-hand perspective. Some friends of my master visited today and had a fiery conversation as a result of Abraham Lincoln's reelection. My abolitionist friend seemed to agree to their thinking, but was hesitant about the proposition of getting involved in a conflict that he didn't believe in, taking into account that even though he was born in the South he learnt a great deal of things about the value of a person's life and about the struggle that one needs to go through in order to make the world a better place. He vainly tried to explain that slavery was ineffective and he eventually agreed that the only solution for the government to respect...

She does not like to talk with me, but another slave working for them told me that my master is dead, he was killed in Kentucky as he was fighting against unionist forces. This is one of the saddest days of my life, it is catastrophic to see a man dying while fighting for something that he does not truly believe in.
I am 77 years old. I received the most beautiful present I could ever think of. The president has apparently issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a document that made slaves throughout the country free. I am too old to take advantage of the opportunity to do everything I wanted to do as a free woman, but this is really a wonderful thing -- society has finally realized that it had wronged African-Americans all of this time.

The Emancipation Proclamation has produced great change in the American society, but even with this one is still likely to feel the prejudice present in the minds of most white people today. Slavery might be gone, but there is still a long way to go until people in the U.S. are going to be able to understand why it is important for them to be objective and why all people are important, regardless of their gender, skin color, or any other particularities they have.