Slave+Dancer+B2


 *  The Errand**

In the opening in slave dancer starts of with jessie living in a one bed room apartment in New Orleans with his mother who make's dresses and his sister, they dont have alot, jessie is forbiddin to go down to the slave markets.

Interesting how a small little needle has such an impact on an entire family. He doesn't say it embarrasses him, he just states that the needle kept his family eating. That mom did a lot of work that probably no one even notices, but she does it because she loves them. She even is able to keep a positive attitude in the middle of poor circumstances. THAT is the way to keep a family, happy. Thank God that your blessings are better than what you could be facing! The disobedience of the son really shows that he is taking things for granted because his mom wouldn't have told him not to go there for no reason. QUESTION: Why do we always assume that things that are forhbidden are gonna be where we want to be and are things we want to do?? Ah, she shows us the father died. His sister grieved his death. Good technique. QUESTION: WHY WOULD A SLAVE OWNER NAME HIS SLAVE A NON HUMAN NAME??

OH, Dang!!! He finally obeyed and got nabbed! His mom's gonna be mad, then scared, then sooo, soooo sad! These character descriptions sound just like they are out of some spark notes or something.... I hope not!! ~Mrs. Ruuamau As i read through the story it gets more interesting to me. I find out more and more about the things i didnt know before such as, on the ship when they were gathering the slaves if you were a slave and had your head on your knees the crew would force you to drink rum even if you didnt accept it just so they could get you back on your feet. I do find this book to be real good as i get deeper into the story though. (mychael)


 * Agatha Bollier- ** Jessie aunt, who the family turn to during troubled times
 * Betty Bollier – ** Jessie sister who’s not involved in the story to much

January of 1840 Jessie gets abducted by sailors who placed him on a shipped name the __Moonlight.__ His job is to play the fife so the slave has music to dance to. (Mychael)- I find it interesting that the whole crew has to share one bucket of water for washing and the long the voyage the less drinking water they would have.(Except for the Captain)
 * Moonlight **

It makes me mad the way those grown men are messing with this little boy. It is really UGLY to see men who can't find anything better to do than to mess with frightened little kids. They feel power by overpowering helpless folks and I ALWAYS feel the need to help the helpless. I think that makes me better! :) I think the men who order Jessie around shouldnt be so hard on him because he is just a kid. I mean they kiddnapped on and put him on a ship so he can play a pipe. I understand you get punished for things you do but i thought it was wrong how he had to get whipped though he is a lil boy not a grown man i dont think anybody deserves that.(mychael)

I find out awful and wrong how one crew member had mad an African women go mad just by talking to her in her language and he may have been telling her things to frighting her or make matters worse for her. She didnt deserve to be thrown overboard at all. (mychael) The moonlight is bound to Africa, under Captain Cawthorne a brutal man. When first meeting Jessie he bites his ear hard enough to draw blood.
 * Ned Sparks ** - Occasional doctor who Jessie meets aboard the Moonlight.
 * Captain Cawthorne ** - Captain of the Moonlight,

Ben stout- untrustworthy and sly men. Explaining the British cruiser and how they made it dangerous by begin the look out for illegal American slavers. Purvis who is accused for stealing an egg, whose then tied up and brutally flogged by Ben stout. Then in the end Jessie and Purvis found out it was Ben stout who stole the egg.
 * The Shrouds **
 * Clay Purvis- ** one of two sailors who abducted Jessie
 * Claudius sharky ** - another sailor involved in the kidnapping of Jessie starts to explain the trade route to him

The ship finally arrives off the coast of Africa .Now Jessie is becoming tired of being on the ship also becoming anger with the idea of the slave trade, he starts refusing to work, Jessie wonders how Purvis can be anger about the condition his parents traveled under, but fail to see how it’s wrong to treat slaves the way he does. A bond is starting between Jessie and a young slave boy.
 * The **** Bight of Benin **