Veronica Reyes - Reflection on Technology

    Uncle Billy McCrea, is a slave from Jasper, Texas, who remembers his life as a slave and tells about it in a 1940 interview.
       He had 36 children (18 boys in Jasper ). The strongest slaves were used to impregnate women to make them, and their children stronger, because more slaves were needed to do the work needed. It was basically their way of modification of slaves over time. He also mentions how he has twin boys. He still talks and communicates with his children. Some children is slave times never knew their father much.
      He also revealed that they used to sing songs when they were working, on their way to work, or on the steamboats. Their songs referred to their work conditions or women or things going on in their lives at the time. Many of the songs from slavery time can be found today. Most slaves remembered the songs and their connection with the work they did. Uncle Billy remembered at least three songs.
       He also tells about the Yankees who came in. Yankees were from the North, and they were abolitionists. He tells about how he remembers them going home. It has been said that some slaves believe their owners never did them wrong. Back then, it was a crazy idea to not own another person, but now we realize how wrong that is. Slaves didn't even know that it was wrong for their owners to own them, they never thought of being free.
       I think with the rate in which our technology today is advancing, the future generations will have to maybe even rely on more technology. Their time will be advanced, but it will all come from our generation of advanced technology.
      Today, our youth was raised with technology, and not fascinated by it. This stuff is the norm. But in future generations to come, they probably even need it to live, because new inventions come up, and more ideas, and that means more technology to express and create those ideas. They will live in a more technology based world.