Sally Ashton
Since Sally Ashton was born, she has lived her life in Virginia. She grew up there, and was put into slavery as a tobacco farmer for the rest of her life.
In the voice recording she mentioned that from when she was born up until she was at least thirteen or fourteen, she didn't own any shoes. When she finally got shoes they weren't decent. She said that her shoes she has now are nothing like the shoes she had back when she was a child. They are way better.
She said that she had eight horses to thrash wheat. They took a very long time to trash all the way through the wheat. It took three weeks for them to get through the crops. She said it was too much.
She said that they didn't that they didn't own a stove. All they had was a great old brick oven. Which didn't work very well. But she didn't spend much time in the house. She usually stayed out back behind the shed where the crops were.
Archibald A. Hill asked who she worked for. She said that she worked for Hancock. And that he had a hundred servants or more.
I think that our children will think our technology is old and outdated. They will most likely be almost any type of technology you can think of when they are born. They will probably get a phone or a tablet way earlier than any of us did.
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