Sunday, April 30, 2017

How did Kit view slavery in The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

Kit grew up where slaves were a way of life,
but she is repulsed by the
thought of slave ships.


Growing up in Barbados as a member of
the upper class, Kit is used
to having slaves around to care for her needs.  She was not part of
a big
family, and never had a mother or siblings to take care of her.  When John asks her
about
her family, she mentions slaves as if they were a part of every
householdbecause they
were.

"Were there
no women to care for
you?"

"Oh, slaves of course. I had a
black nursemaid€¦ (Ch.
2)

Kit never
did any work.  She had slaves to do it.  It
was just the way things were done
where she came from.  It would never have occurred to her that
slavery was
wrong or to question it.

However, when Nat tells her that
there
could be people down in the hold on a slave ship, she
is...

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