Personal Narrative-I Joining The Union

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I just recently joined the Union after I became a free man.I hated slavery.All my brothers and all my sisters doing work for the white men and women,white boys and girls.Slavery is torture either we work,run,beaten,or dead.I soon hope that in the future that the white men can change their ways.After being freed I made a promise that life would be different for my family. When I moved to the North -through all the fighting I witnessed- I joined the Union.The Union is located in North America,the North didn’t believe in slavery.I believe the men and women in the North was close to Christ.I joined the Union to protect my family from the Confederacy.The Confederacy is our enemy,our rival,our nemesis. The Confederacy is home of the south.Their

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