Vocabulary
To suffer from great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
What is distressed?
Early in the evening the train arrived at Savannah.
train
What is a noun?
Not a leaf moved. Everything was as still as death.
What is a simile?
A white slave owner with bandages and a broken arm.
What is, how Ellen disguised herself?
Slaves needed ___________ to travel without their master.
What is a written pass?
To search desperately or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
What is frantically?
You, Tom, come here, you runaway rascal!
you
What is a pronoun?
Once they opened their cottage door, and Ellen stepped outside as a young gentleman, there could be no turning back.
What is imagery?
Wednesday, December 21st, 1848.
What is the day Ellen and William boarded the train.
The bandage on Ellen's right hand was part of their plan to keep them safe. Why did Ellen pretend to have a broken arm?
What is, slaves were not allowed to learn how to read and write.
A feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
What is envied?
Why didn't you emancipate July, since she was too sick to work for you?
emancipate
What is a verb?
It stinks enough to kill or cure twenty men!
What is a hyperbole?
The job William had gave him extra money when he worked overtime.
What is a cabinetmaker?
Why did the vulgar tobacco-chewing man become enraged with "Mr. Johnson" and William?
What is, he thought William should not be wearing a quality hat and "Mr. Johnson" was spoiling him.
To lack in knowledge or training.
What is ignorant?
Only five days before they boarded the train, William and Ellen seemed to be contented slaves.
before
What is a preposition?
Staring at Ellen as the serpent did at Eve, the slave dealer went on.
What is an allusion?
Slaves are not allowed to have religious or civil marriages.
What is, so their master can sell/trade them or their children?
All first class passengers had to get off of the train and take a ferry when they arrived in ________________.
Havre-de-Grace
An unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
What is predicament?
I fear the cold air on this deck is too much for me.
cold
What is an adjective?
...take a slave into the North and bring him back here filled to the brim,
The condition "Mr. Johnson" suffered from would be helped by the cool air in Philadelphia. What was his condition?
What is slavery?
Daily Double!!!
When did William and Ellen arrive in Baltimore?