Slave Dancer Quiz Essay
Slave Dancer Quiz
The Spaniard:
• Cockfights are outlawed in Massachusetts.
• The beginning of the chapter; 8 slaves dead= 5 men, 1 women, and 2 children.
• Slaves nearer death than the crew even though they eat healthier food, and more.
• Stout assumed the duties of Mate.
• Ben Stout increased their misery.
• Lost at Sea: Everyone lost literally and mentally; No hope of getting back.
• “Stay way from the holds, lad,” Stout.
• Stout, “I am concerned about the crew.” “I want them in good spirits.”
• “Hatred poisons the soul,” Stout, “It’s an incredible ailment.”
• “I have been nothing but good to you… I don’t understand your ingratitude.
• “I HATE THIS SHIP,” Jessie.
• Purvis’s explanation for why Stout is so cruel and everyone …show more content…
wants to kill him: He’s not alive; There is one of him on every ship haunting the crew; THE DEVIL!
• Whenever Jessie sees a sail on the horizon he would pretend it was the British cruiser coming to free the slaves and the take everyone else to England where Stout would be hanged and Purvis and Jessie sent to Boston.
• Jessie’s pipe was put in the holds; Ras and some other slaves return it to him after Stout pushes him into the holds.
• Purvis shows Jessie cats cradle and the game reminds him of when he used to play it with Betty.
• Three weeks left to the voyage; Northeast trades.
• “I won’t let him beat you,” said Purvis to Jessie about Stout.
• “He sups on the fear he rouses up,” said Purvis referring to Stout.
• Everyone on the ship has gone mad; drinking
• 3 animals Jessie sees off the side of the ship: Shark, Seagull, and Flying fish. The flying fish reminded him of the flying fish in his mothers sewing box.
• Jessie’s job is to clean the latrines (Slave bathrooms.)
• 30 dead
• As they were brought out of the holds the slaves showed no surprise.
• American Ship demanding to search the Moonlight would have to go through the Spanish Government because the Captain would have them raise the Spanish Flag.
• British Ship demanding to take the slaves they would raise up an American Flag.
• The Spaniard: Richest broker who has a slave with no tongue. The captain is going to sell the Spaniard some slaves.
• Cawthorne will receive the money when the slaves are taken off of the ship.
• Purvis’s older sister lives in Boston; he doesn’t know whether she is alive or not.
• Purvis said that his “home is where he is at.”
Ben Stout’s Mistake:
• The night before the slaves will be sold the captain throws a little “ball.”
• Jessie goes to retrieve the chest that is filled with silk, lace, and other clothing for the slaves to dress-up in. The men enjoy watching them.
• “Show them. Help them. Teach them,” the captain.
• “Our Guest’s.” What the captain calls the slaves.
• When the slaves were brought on deck, by Stout’s yelling, he through all the clothes on the deck.
• Purvis, “The captain says the niggers like to dress up and they ought to have a bit of pleasure before the Cubans get a hold of them.”
• Stout, for the FIRST TIME, got drunk and put on a women’s gown.
• “Don’t neglect our guest’s,” said the Captain.
• The captain hit, slapped, and punched the salves and sailors alike.
• Stout would roar with laughter every time the captain would hit
him.
• The Spaniards servant was moving his mouth and waving his arms telling them that there was a ship.
• “An English ship,” said Stout. “I know her. She won’t bother us in these waters.”
• The captain started going crazy. Trying to get all of the slaves overboard and trying to change the flag.
• Stout’s mistake was mistaking the ship on the horizon.
• “Stout you have ruined me!” said the captain.
• Ras and Jessie jump into the hold. They ate the biscuits Cawthorne gave Jessie for guessing what was in the chest. They also tried to task to each other.
• When they cam out of the hold the sun was shining and there was water everywhere. Purvis was lying dead and Stout was like a fly caught in all of the rope.
• Jessie heard yelling and laughing. He went to the captain’s private room and found him there, alive. Cawthorne was left to drown.
• Ras and Jessie tried to swim to shore using the booms to help them float.
• Jessie felt like his whole life took place in that stretch of sea because: baptism; cleansing of sin, ups and downs of his life (going up and down in the wave), moistness of the walls of his house, mom’s uterus, oh swim.
• They swim to Mississippi.
• Ras and Jessie meet David who gives them food and water and shelter. Two men come to take Ras North. Daniel gives Ras food for the journey. Jessie prepares for his long travel home. Daniel gives him food and water and directions.
• Daniel is an escaped slave and tells Jessie to not tell anyone about him. Or else they will come and get him and bring him back into slavery.
• Jessie travels for 4 days.
• He felt choked when he woke up one morning like he felt when he had to dance the slaves for the first time.
• When Jessie got home Aunt Agatha changed. She treated him with care and love and never called him a bayou lout. She realized how bad it felt almost losing another relative.
The Spaniard:
• Cockfights are outlawed in Massachusetts.
• The beginning of the chapter; 8 slaves dead= 5 men, 1 women, and 2 children.
• Slaves nearer death than the crew even though they eat healthier food, and more.
• Stout assumed the duties of Mate.
• Ben Stout increased their misery.
• Lost at Sea: Everyone lost literally and mentally; No hope of getting back.
• “Stay way from the holds, lad,” Stout.
• Stout, “I am concerned about the crew.” “I want them in good spirits.”
• “Hatred poisons the soul,” Stout, “It’s an incredible ailment.”
• “I have been nothing but good to you… I don’t understand your ingratitude.
• “I HATE THIS SHIP,” Jessie.
• Purvis’s explanation for why Stout is so cruel and everyone …show more content…
wants to kill him: He’s not alive; There is one of him on every ship haunting the crew; THE DEVIL!
• Whenever Jessie sees a sail on the horizon he would pretend it was the British cruiser coming to free the slaves and the take everyone else to England where Stout would be hanged and Purvis and Jessie sent to Boston.
• Jessie’s pipe was put in the holds; Ras and some other slaves return it to him after Stout pushes him into the holds.
• Purvis shows Jessie cats cradle and the game reminds him of when he used to play it with Betty.
• Three weeks left to the voyage; Northeast trades.
• “I won’t let him beat you,” said Purvis to Jessie about Stout.
• “He sups on the fear he rouses up,” said Purvis referring to Stout.
• Everyone on the ship has gone mad; drinking
• 3 animals Jessie sees off the side of the ship: Shark, Seagull, and Flying fish. The flying fish reminded him of the flying fish in his mothers sewing box.
• Jessie’s job is to clean the latrines (Slave bathrooms.)
• 30 dead
• As they were brought out of the holds the slaves showed no surprise.
• American Ship demanding to search the Moonlight would have to go through the Spanish Government because the Captain would have them raise the Spanish Flag.
• British Ship demanding to take the slaves they would raise up an American Flag.
• The Spaniard: Richest broker who has a slave with no tongue. The captain is going to sell the Spaniard some slaves.
• Cawthorne will receive the money when the slaves are taken off of the ship.
• Purvis’s older sister lives in Boston; he doesn’t know whether she is alive or not.
• Purvis said that his “home is where he is at.”
Ben Stout’s Mistake:
• The night before the slaves will be sold the captain throws a little “ball.”
• Jessie goes to retrieve the chest that is filled with silk, lace, and other clothing for the slaves to dress-up in. The men enjoy watching them.
• “Show them. Help them. Teach them,” the captain.
• “Our Guest’s.” What the captain calls the slaves.
• When the slaves were brought on deck, by Stout’s yelling, he through all the clothes on the deck.
• Purvis, “The captain says the niggers like to dress up and they ought to have a bit of pleasure before the Cubans get a hold of them.”
• Stout, for the FIRST TIME, got drunk and put on a women’s gown.
• “Don’t neglect our guest’s,” said the Captain.
• The captain hit, slapped, and punched the salves and sailors alike.
• Stout would roar with laughter every time the captain would hit
him.
• The Spaniards servant was moving his mouth and waving his arms telling them that there was a ship.
• “An English ship,” said Stout. “I know her. She won’t bother us in these waters.”
• The captain started going crazy. Trying to get all of the slaves overboard and trying to change the flag.
• Stout’s mistake was mistaking the ship on the horizon.
• “Stout you have ruined me!” said the captain.
• Ras and Jessie jump into the hold. They ate the biscuits Cawthorne gave Jessie for guessing what was in the chest. They also tried to task to each other.
• When they cam out of the hold the sun was shining and there was water everywhere. Purvis was lying dead and Stout was like a fly caught in all of the rope.
• Jessie heard yelling and laughing. He went to the captain’s private room and found him there, alive. Cawthorne was left to drown.
• Ras and Jessie tried to swim to shore using the booms to help them float.
• Jessie felt like his whole life took place in that stretch of sea because: baptism; cleansing of sin, ups and downs of his life (going up and down in the wave), moistness of the walls of his house, mom’s uterus, oh swim.
• They swim to Mississippi.
• Ras and Jessie meet David who gives them food and water and shelter. Two men come to take Ras North. Daniel gives Ras food for the journey. Jessie prepares for his long travel home. Daniel gives him food and water and directions.
• Daniel is an escaped slave and tells Jessie to not tell anyone about him. Or else they will come and get him and bring him back into slavery.
• Jessie travels for 4 days.
• He felt choked when he woke up one morning like he felt when he had to dance the slaves for the first time.
• When Jessie got home Aunt Agatha changed. She treated him with care and love and never called him a bayou lout. She realized how bad it felt almost losing another relative.