Shortly after falling asleep, five year old Casey wakes up suddenly, thrashing about and talking incoherently. Her mother races to her room and notices that she is breathing heavily and her heart is racing. Casey likely experienced a .

A traumatic experience

Explanation: Sometimes people handle traumattic problems different , and their behavior is different. I recall from reading this book roll of thunder hear my cry that Casey was acting weird for some days after she wasn’t suppose to be up one night.

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.