how they was brought over here on slave ships and all and then worked to death in the swamps here abouts and whipped for not working themselves to death fast enough and the women raped and the families broke up so , loopey and me , we had to do a die-o-rama for this project in our history class which at first i thought would be horrible , having something to do with dead people an all , or people dying or something like what you see in the movies , but then loopey splained it to me , that it was just a little scene and we could put in it whatever we wanted about something that happened along time ago .