They say he promotes the African at the expense of his own white Christian brother. Whitechapel is an Abolitionist and that they should string him up. Whitechapel says he stands by his words his Christian beliefs are true. Whitechapel for his attitude of treating slaves like humans and not just tools, repeating his words in the context of a slave of his being whipped to death. The disembodied voices of the plantation owners suggest other slaves will take Chapel’s death as a warning they can’t run. Whitechapel says it was a lesson that went wrong. The other plantation owners bare their teeth and shout hip hip hooray. Whitechapel enters, reassuring himself he belongs there. Whitechapel considers turning around, not wanting to face the mockery. Whitechapel reminds himself he is a Whitechapel his father’s dust is between the boards of the club.
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He is heading for the club his father and his father’s friends helped to build, now full of their sons, and he fears derision. Whitechapel telling himself he is split in two about whether to go to the Gentleman’s Club. Whitechapel’s voice saying “I leave my plantation to face the ridicule of my peers.” The narration then shifts to a second-person “you” address, with Mr. With her gone, nothing can keep Chapel there. They are both with her when Chapel’s mother dies. Chapel recounts a conversation with his father, in which his father tells him he fears Chapel is the type of slave who learns from being whipped and beaten for making mistakes rather than the type who observes others and follows suit. He meets Lydia at night and she tells him what she remembers from books. From then on Chapel never opened a book or picked up a pen, but he composes in his head or aloud. Whitechapel sent Lydia from the room and lashed Chapel with a belt, telling him never to read again. One day Chapel was reading Romeo and Julietto Lydia when her father caught them.
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Then she taught him how to write, reminding him that he, as the child of a slave, isn’t allowed to read or write. She showed him how to read, as long as he promised on a Bible not to tell a single soul.
Whitechapel’s daughter Lydia Chapel learned about books, which she peered at motionlessly for hours.
She fed Chapel sugarloaf and sang him sweet songs.įrom Mr. Chapel loved the days when he hung onto his mother’s dress while she worked in the master’s kitchen. Whitechapel carried a birch branch as a threat to the children to know their station. Whitechapel washed Chapel with Whitechapel’s great-grandchildren. She is young enough to be Whitechapel’s granddaughter. His mother is an angel without wings a pure light radiates from her. In a series of rhyming couplets, Chapel says his father is the oldest man in the world. The narration switches to lines of verse spoken in Chapel’s voice.
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