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Understanding Slavery Through "To Be a Slave" by Abby Frenzel

Abby Frenzel, through the lens of Julius Lester, presents the harrowing realities of slavery in "To Be a Slave." This book informs readers about the brutal experiences faced by enslaved individuals, from unbearable living conditions to the constant threat of violence. Utilizing vivid context clues, it recounts the emotional struggles of slaves, highlighting their desires for freedom and dignity amid a repressive society. Through various narrative structures and perspectives, the text exposes the cruel realities of slavery and conveys a powerful message about resilience and humanity.

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Understanding Slavery Through "To Be a Slave" by Abby Frenzel

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  1. To be a Slave By: Abby Frenzel Author: Julius Lester 5th six weeks 6th period

  2. Context Clues! • Innumerable • Sentence: House servants were responsible for uncovering and revealing to slave owners innumerable planned slave insurrections. • Definition: Too many to be counted. • Insurrection • Sentence: House servants were responsible for uncovering and revealing innumerable planned slave insurrection. • Definition: a violent uprising against an authority or government. • Retribution • Sentence: They feel indignant at the servitude that is imposed upon them and only want power to inflict the most cruel retribution upon their oppressors; but they desire only the means of subsistence and temporary gratification in this country during their abode here. • Definition: Something given or inflicted in such requital.

  3. Continued From Context Clues! • Crusade • Sentence: Lew fitted from one plantation to another, in the dead of night, preaching a crusade to Mexico, and creating a furor of excitement wherever he appeared. • Definition: Any war carried on under papal sanction. • Repressive • Sentence: Yet no matter how repressive slave owners became, there were always slaves who tried to escape who knew little more than that if they would eventually reach a place where they would be free. • Definition: tending or serving to repress.

  4. Text Purpose! • I think the author wrote this book (to be a slave) was because he wanted to inform the reader. He wanted to let all of us know what it was like to be a slave back in the day. So, he wrote a book.

  5. Text Structure! • I believe the text structure of this book is cause and effect because something seems to happen then there is a bad effect to follow it.

  6. Text Representation! Men Women Same • Wore shirt and • tattered jeans • Wore close • to nothing, but • dresses with • holes in them. • Clothes • with • holes • in them. • Were a little shy at • the dances they had. • Weren’t as hateful • as the men were. • Had a great • amount of hatred. • Were • treated • like • animals. • Loved to dance • and sing.

  7. Authors Perspective Point Of View! • Subject: How slaves were treated. • Authors Feelings: Sorrow, hatred, depressed, yet inspired • Text Evidence: Even more rare was the occasion when the auction block became a source of joy.

  8. Main Idea & Supporting Details! • 1. • Beginning Page: 25 • Main Idea: The living quarters for the slaves while traveling in the ship were unbearable. • Middle Page: 56 • Main Idea: How slaves got to the plantations, what they looked like, and how they were transported.

  9. Continued Main Idea & Supporting Details! • Ending Page: 127 • Main Idea: When slaves retired there were 3 paths to take being sold, lashed, or killed. And their master chose that. • 2. • Details: Writing it the exact way the people described it. • Page #: 35 • Comments: To let me know how they talked back then. • Details: Italics. • Page #: 88 • Comments: How he wrote his own comments in italics. • Details: Poem lines on the songs. • Page: 113 • Comments: The way he puts the songs in poem lines makes me sing the tune in my head.

  10. Draw Inferences! • 1. • Situation: Babies were thrown overboard • Character Actions: jump, scream, cry for their drowning infant. • Conclusion Drawn: Jump overboard and swim, even though you’re risking your life. • 2. • Situation: Religious meetings • Character Feelings: Joyful, fulfilled, loud, and accompanied by the lord. • Conclusions Drawn: Meet in secret, because the master doesn’t want us to be worshipping the lord.

  11. Comparing Story Variants, Connect/ Compare/ Contrast! To Be A Slave Article of The Week • This article tells • about how • slavery ended. • The book tells how • slavery began and • the hardships they • faced • Both tell • about • what • happened • during • slavery. • The article says • some slaves in the • south were free. • This book says no slave • was ever free unless • he/she lived up North

  12. Fact/ Opinion! • 1. • Facts: • Page #: 56 • Solomon Northup was free, then captured and sold as a slave. • Comments: I think the author put this fact in here to show the reader you are never free if you were an African-American. • Page #:105 • The slaves would sing as a warning or in a source of joy. • Comments: The reason I think he included that is to let the reader know how the slaves communicated. • Page #: 73 • A slaves work is never done. • Comments: I think he put this fact in here is to show, when you’re a slave you are always being worked. • Page #: 94 • Henson was the co-owner of the plantation. • The reason I believe the author put this in here is a slave is property and you can upgrade it whenever you like. • Page #: 126 • Thousands of slaves escaped, but couldn’t live with what they had. • Comments: I think this was a fact because, a slave can be poor, depending on who, but they can’t survive in the wilderness.

  13. Fact/ Opinion Continued! • 2. • Page #: 102 • What the owner thought was right, the slave thought the opposite. • Comments: The reason I think this opinion is here, is to show how badly they hated their master. • Page #:42 • Selling was inhuman. • Comments: The reason I believe this opinion is in this book is selling your own species is terrible. • Page #: 48 • The auction block could be very emotional. • Comments: I think he put this in here is it would be hard to watch your loved one be sold. • Page #: 58 • Slaves were acts in their masters own little play. • Comments: I think this was added because, it’s true and he wanted to make a statement. • Page #: 127 • Slave owners were shocked whenever a slave retired. • Comments: I think this opinion is here because maybe they were shocked, since they were losing a slave.

  14. Reading Response! • 1. • Page #: 119 • I relate to this paragraph because if a fellow slave were to run away and asked to take shelter in my home for the night, I would gladly let them. • 2. • Page #: 101 • I dislike this paragraph because it made me feel like the slaves did. And it’s right from wrong. • 3. • Page #: 56 • I dislike this paragraph because it makes me sad and it also tells how many slaves there were being held, and I disagree with that,.

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