Nightjohn
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0440219361
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Publication Year
1993
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Description
Sarney, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brough there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars.
He had escaped to freedom, but he came back-- came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment, Nightjohn still returned to slavery to teach others how to read. And twelve-year-old Sarney is willing to take the risk to learn.
He had escaped to freedom, but he came back-- came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment, Nightjohn still returned to slavery to teach others how to read. And twelve-year-old Sarney is willing to take the risk to learn.
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