Nettie's Trip South by Ann Turner, illustrated by Ronald Himler, Alladin Paperbacks, New York, 1987.
This is actual a book of fiction, describing a trip South just before the Cicil War. The author says this of the book, "This story is inspired by my great grandmother Henrietta
'a [Nettie's] diary of her trip South, taken in 1859 when she was a young woman. there, she witnessed a slave auction and returned home a committed abolitionist. As she said in her own words, 'All I have heard of slaver seemed unreal until now that I see for myself.'"
The story of this book is a young woman, traveling South with her older brother and sister, just before the Civil. Her brother was determined to see conditions, and to see a slave auction. It appears he was writing a paper. It describes the auction, and the slaves being required to jump when told to do so. They slaves did not have last names, just their first. Families meant nothing to the overseer, so without a last name they could removed easily from relatives. The story tells of two siblings being separated. It also confronts the idea of three fifths of a person according to the constitution, because all the people for full people.
The story tells of the profound effect on the author, who now has nightmares.
Slavery was a nightmare for our country, and lead to inevitable results to get rid of it.
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