At this time Frederick was about seven years old and he was just getting used to a slave plantation. He wasn’t used to the children having more than two pieces of clothing a year. He was not used to the cruel overseer named Mr. Severe for his severe whipping of the slaves. He died quickly and mysteriously. Me and my mother believed he was murdered somehow and deserved it for being so cruel, but I also believe that he deserved to die quickly because of his harsh and cruel way of taking care of slaves and all his anger and aggression and evil. Me and my mom’s point of view is that if he is that angry he would die young. During all the whippings, hardships and torture, the slaves made themselves happy by singing, by taking their poor souls and trying to get a joyful expression on their face. But in my opinion, I believe that one of the songs was not sung to make joy in the heart of the slaves for it was stupid and didn’t make much sense.

“I am going away to the Great House Farm! O, yea! O, yea! O!”

This song not only offends and disgusts me, but if you ever watch Bringing Down the House with Queen Latifah, there is a scene at the dinner table, their dinner guest being served by Queen Latifah in a maid uniform, begins to reminisce on her childhood plantation life singing, “Is Massa, gonna sell me tomorrow? Yes, Yes, Yes! Is Massa gonna sell me, yes, yes, yes”.

The slaves thought that being in the Great House Farm was be better than being in the field.
They sang about, talked about, and wished their lives would be in the Great House Farm running errands and getting better provisions like food, a bed to sleep and not the “cold, damp floor”, and better clothes than the two shirts for kids and two shirts, two trousers or pants, one jacket, one pair of shoes and one miserable blanket for the adults for the entire year. (Darian Smith, Eric Smith)