Actually, she was born to it...it was her father (who may not have actually been the one who sired her...if you can figure that one out...I'm not sure how to describe it here) who, what I've written so far, owns a farm in Kansas, but really makes his income in the slave trade, circa 1920. She is a slave from birth, but lives with her "birth family" until the age of 16, when she is first sold to a young married couple.

As to my question regarding whether she should be speaking as if she doesn't know what is going on in the world at the time, or based on what she knows now, it will probably be a little of both.

I've tried to put myself in this person's life, as it were. It's a first-person account, and I believe I need to really BE her while I'm writing (no easy task, since I'm a dominant male), sort of like an actor preparing for a role. The first segment is somewhat disjointed, but intentionally so. She is writing her memoirs, and thinking back to her earliest memories. She skips around a lot, as things start coming back to her. Later segments will be more chronological oriented. So far, I have the beginning and end, and some of the middle written. I may be uploading the first segment as early as today.

Please, take a look and let me know what you think. Not set on a title yet, but probably something along the lines of Memoirs of a Slave Girl.