Summary Of Nightjohn's Life On The Plantation

In the late 1800’s; deep down in South Carolina on a plantation owned by one of the most wealthiest man in slave owner history. A 12-year-old slave girl, and a slave man who once escaped from torturous south that knows how to read and write. The two team up to help teach slaves all around the south to read. NightJohn is brought in the plantation, he is punished for escaping to the North. His owner did not know he learned how to read or write. So he stayed on the plantation. One night, NightJohn was looking for some chewing tobacco, (this is where they first meet) Sarny had chewing tobacco. So he makes a deal with her, he said “for every lip of tobacco, i’ll trade you a letter”. From then, NightJohn and Sarny start trading tobacco for letters to …show more content…
Mr. Waller, he was your typical slave owner of the story. In the story; there’s a breeder girl named Alice. She gets punished for it; after she was punished; Waller made Sarny go rub salt in her cuts so she could feel more pain. Because it gives you a really good flavor of how people in the south treated African-Americans at that time, it shows the chemistry NightJohn and sarny had and it shows how cruel slave owners and overseers were to the slaves. So i recommend this book. Hi, my name NightJohn. I was born a slave; and i thought i would die a slave; but thanks my dedication; i escaped the cruel, racial south and made it to the North. I later came back because there was no work up north. When i came back i was capture, and brung back to the