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100
Simple-minded and prone to fits

Ruth

100

Miss Mary's nephew who sells Ruth & Isabel to Locktons

Mr. Robert Finch

100
Where Isabel now lives with the Locktons

Manhattan, New York

100

"Do what Madam says, or else she can be the devil to her slaves."

Becky Berry

100

What does Isabel take with her and put in her pocket before she leaves Miss Mary Finch's house?

Seeds

200

Lockton's cook and maid

Becky Berry

200

Gave Mary Finch's funeral ceremony... thought it was "peculiar" that Mary Finch taught Isabel to read. Tells Isabel to "know her place"

Pastor Weeks

200
Where Jenny's tavern is that Isabel is sold in.

Newport, RI

200

"I am a man" / fought like a lion

Cuffe (Isabel's dad)

200

Why can't Jenny buy Isabel and Ruth, even though she offered the first time?

Locktons offered twice the amount.

300

Isabel and Ruth's former owner who passed away; taught Isabel to read

Miss Mary Finch

300
Jenny's husband, doesn't believe in selling slaves in an auction

Bill

300

Where the rich people get their water

Tea Water Pump

300

I'll make you another doll, I promise, but not tonight. Want me to sing to you?

Isabel

300
What does Isabel pick out of the biscuits on the ship before giving them to Ruth?

Worms

400

Loyalist planning to bribe rebels with $ to switch sides

Elihu Lockton
400

Lawyer who writes Mary Finch's will to be free

Mr. Cornell

400

This is place that Isabel's father died

Slave Auction

400

Go pray for her who owned you, girl.

Mr. Robert Finch

400

Why does Madam slap Isabel on the dock?

Isabel says it was her who giggled, but it was Ruth.
500

Bellingham's slave boy in the red had, who calls Isabel "Country"

Curzon

500

Tells Lockton he shouldn't have come back to New York... a fellow Loyalist

Charles

500

This is the ship that brought Isabel to New York... also the place where Bellingham searched Lockton's crates

Hartshorn / dock

500

I was indentured when I was your age... no charge... I like feeding children

Jenny

500

When Isabel and Ruth arrive in New York, who is in control?

George Washington's army (rebels)