my 500 word essay

The historial event topic that I selected from the website eyewitness to history from the 19th Century time period, it’s called A slave’s life. This event is about a young slave girl name Elizabeth or “lizzie”. She was born in virginia around 1818 and the story tell a about her life. When she was about fourteen years old when she was given to her master's oldest son as a wedding present. Not too long after that, the son moved his household to North Carolina where he became the pastor of a small parish. This was the place where she gave birth at age eighteen to her only child - a boy- the result of an unwanted sexual relationship with a white man whom she never named. A few years after that she went back to Virginia and became the slave of her original master’s daughter. Lizzie’s masters in Virginia were going through some bad economical times not Lizzie had learned her sewing skills from her mother, was hired as a seamstress which attracted a large amount of people. Lizzie's life changed when her master told her she could buy her release from slavery for $1,200.00 which is like $27,000 in today's money. Her patrons loaned her the money so her freedom and her son’s were granted in 1855. By 1860, the two had made their way to Washington, D.C. where Lizzie set up shop. Her skills again resulted in a large and influential clientele including Mary Lincoln who hired Lizzie as her personal maid and seamstress.
This event happened because lizzie had heart and passion in what she did. In Addition, lizzie went through a hard childhood. She was the only child and she grew up with only her mother. Lizzie was tired of being treated like garage and tired of everyone taking advantage of her and treating her wrong. That is why she decided to be greater then what everyone else thought she could be.

I am convinced that this was a good slave experience because the “white people” respected her more when they saw that a female slave bought her son’s and her freedom and then opened up her own business and she was successful at it. I am pretty sure that other slaves were motivated and expired by her and what she did and that’s how we had so many courageous African-American such as Marthin luther king jr, Rosa park, Obama, ect. Lizzie’s actions did not only expire other slaves but it also expired people like me.
This article supports my thesis because I stated that slave owners should treat their slaves better. For example, if lizzie’s master wouldn’t have raped her he wouldn’t have the kid and that is more people to feed. If slave owners treat their slaves right they would save more money and if they would feed them right and give them a comfortable bed the slaves would work better and the slave owner would be making more money than he would by treating the slaves badly.