Sorry that this won't answer what you are looking for but really this journal entry is really based on your own opinion. Here's something to help you. Just close your eyes and picture everything that went on at the time. What did you see? How did you feel? What was the voyage like? What was there?
Sorry that I wasn't much help but hope you can write your own paper now.
Helper and other describe the economic and social conditions of non slave-holding white southerners as being fairly destitute, mostly due to the fact that poor whites often had to "compete" with slaves for work, which was a bad bargain.
