While I was at school today, my friend Derek came up to me and asked how my project was going. I had a moment in weakness because I broke down, thinking "what if I can't do it? What if I can't do any of it justice or make Toni Morrison proud, should she ever see it?" Derek had hugged me and told me that it would be okay, but..I'm just nervous. So, I went to a trusted professor and asked him if he had any books on slavery, like ones that have previous slaves speak about their experiences. He gave me this book called Remembering Slavery and I'm hoping that it will be a good help. So far it's quite interesting, but again makes me sad. I just don't see how people could have ever done something so bad to people based on their skin color. We are all human. What we look like should not matter. It's what we do that matters. Anyway, back to what I'm doing. While looking at this book, I realize that while all slaves have gone through the worst of things, they have all experienced it differently and had different thoughts and feelings on it. Not to mention that some of them may have gotten it worse than others, so I realize that while I may not get a perfect example of what happened to Sethe, I will get some more insight on how slavery was from people who experienced it firsthand. I wanted to read more tonight, but my mom is having guests over and she says I have to clean and help out. Maybe I can ask some of them their opinions on everything or see if they have suggestions on how I should continue my research..I think my Uncle Vick is coming over and he's a history buff. He majored in history and has a doctorate in it. He's bound to have some ideas..
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